It is a top-ten exporter of gold (#4, 6.1% of world export value in 2024), pistachios (#5, 1.3% of world export value in 2024), platinum (#5, 5.5% of world export value in 2024), iridium (#6, 3.2% of world export value in 2024), antimony (#8, 1.9% of world export value in 2024).
Share of world production, 2024. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.
What does Hong Kong produce?
Hong Kong is not in the top ten producers of any commodity tracked here.
What does Hong Kong export?
Hong Kong's largest commodity exports by value. Each bar's share is that commodity's share of world trade in it, not its share of Hong Kong's own exports — the two are unrelated and shown so a bar near 100% marks a commodity Hong Kong dominates globally rather than one it merely exports a lot of.
Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Hong Kong's own $38.4 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Gold alone is 93% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Hong Kong compares with other countries.
Iridium: #2, 17% of world imports, $391.9 million (2024)
Eggs: #3, 5.1% of world imports, $301.2 million (2024)
Gold: #3, 11% of world imports, $63.2 billion (2024)
Rhodium: #3, 13% of world imports, $939.9 million (2024)
Silver: #4, 12% of world imports, $4.1 billion (2024)
Chromium: #5, 1.1% of world imports, $92.7 million (2024)
Platinum: #5, 8.1% of world imports, $1.2 billion (2024)
Antimony: #8, 2.2% of world imports, $10.5 million (2024)
Palladium: #8, 5.3% of world imports, $694.5 million (2024)
Beef: #9, 2.1% of world imports, $778.7 million (2024)
Shrimp: #9, 2.3% of world imports, $724.3 million (2024)
Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.
Hong Kong commodity by commodity
One page for each commodity where Hong Kong is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.
What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Hong Kong, computed from the same data as this page.
What Hong Kong uses
Hong Kong had about 7.4 million people and a food supply of 2,828 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:
Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Hong Kong, 2023
FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.
Who supplies Hong Kong
Single-supplier markets. Hong Kong buys half or more of its imports from one country in 8 of 15 import markets of $250 million or more, among them silver from China (78%, $4.1 billion); natural gas from China (85%, $2.6 billion); chicken from China (56%, $867 million); coal from Indonesia (83%, $722 million); palladium from Russia (56%, $695 million); crude oil from Canada (69%, $443 million). Import dependency.
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This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Hong Kong produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/HKG/ (CC BY 4.0).
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