Japan's share of Qatar's exports fell from 30% to 7%
Share of Qatar's goods exports going to Japan, China, South Korea and India, as reported by Qatar, 2013 vs 2024.
- 1. Egypt is set to outgrow Japan in 2027, then Russia
- 2. In 2025, Suez Canal traffic was under half its record
- 3. Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country
- 4. Egypt is the world's biggest wheat buyer
- 5. Saudi Arabia has more desalination capacity than the entire US
- 6. Three in four UAE residents are international migrants
- 7. Only America draws more new foreign projects than the UAE
- 8. Algeria outspends all of sub-Saharan Africa on its military
- 9. Women in MENA now outpace men at university
- 10. Dubai's airport handles more international travellers than Heathrow
- 11. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
- 12. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
- 13. Egypt now owes Russia more than any other government
- 14. Two-thirds of young Jordanian women in the workforce are jobless
- 15. Baghdad's mobile internet overtook Erbil's
- 16. Morocco climbed to second in world fertiliser exports
- 17. Algiers now has North Africa's fastest home internet
- 18. Saudi imports from China now top the Group of Seven
- 19. Syria has lost more stored water than drought-famous Iran
- 20. Chicken gives Egyptians twice the calories beef does
- 21. More young Tunisian men than women neither work nor study
- 22. Egypt tripled its ATMs per adult in ten years
- 23. Saudi Arabia's battery imports grew 46-fold since 2019
- 24. Viet Nam overtook China as Morocco's top smartphone supplier
- 25. Iraq went from one city of a million to eight
- 26. Saudi Arabia now receives more tourists than it sends abroad
- 27. Saudi Arabia now raises two-thirds of the chicken it eats
- 28. Most Bangladeshi migrants now live in the Gulf, not India
- 29. Japan's share of Qatar's exports fell from 30% to 7%
- 30. In purchasing power, Egypt overtook Nigeria as Africa's biggest economy
Japan's share of Qatar's goods exports, 2013 to 2024. Sales to Japan fell from $39.9 bn to $6.7 bn.
China's share over the same years. Qatar now sells China $18.9 bn, almost three times what it sells Japan.
South Korea's share slipped; India's barely moved (10.3% to 11.7%). Qatar's total goods exports fell from $133.3 bn to $95.0 bn.
the numbers & method
| 2013 (%) | 2024 (%) | |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 29.9 | 7.1 |
| China | 6.3 | 19.9 |
| South Korea | 18.4 | 13.5 |
| India | 10.3 | 11.7 |
Claim types Fact
UN Comtrade (UN Statistics Division), total goods exports reported by Qatar to each partner and to the world, US$, annual, read from the UN Comtrade API via the progrss vault (§4.11, un-comtrade passes value_checks, 24 matches, 0 mismatches; indicators COMTRADE.X.392, X.156, X.699, X.0). Shares are progrss calculations: exports to the partner divided by Qatar's exports to the world, same year. Values: Japan $39.87 bn (2013) and $6.72 bn (2024); China $8.45 bn and $18.92 bn; India $13.77 bn and $11.15 bn; world $133.34 bn and $95.04 bn. Japan's share by year: 29.9, 25.3, 20.8, 19.1, 17.1, 17.3, 18.6, 15.5, 13.6, 9.6, 8.0, 7.1 (2013 to 2024); it ticked up in 2018 and 2019. Only three partners are on the chart; all other buyers (about 60% of 2024 exports, including South Korea and European countries) are not shown. 2025 is not yet published for Qatar. Totals move with prices as well as volumes; no cause is claimed. Claim type: Fact. South Korea, Qatar's second-biggest buyer at both ends: $24.53 bn (18.4%) in 2013 and $12.82 bn (13.5%) in 2024. The four buyers shown took 65% of Qatar's exports in 2013 and 52% in 2024; the rest is not split. Live re-read of the Comtrade preview API matched the vault for every value.
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