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Poland — critical-material dependency

Poland imports 32 of the 32 critical materials this atlas tracks ($1.9B). Its most supplier-concentrated dependence is ferro-niobium (92% from Brazil); 5 of those imports come mainly from China.

14/100
import-vulnerability index
32
critical materials imported
$1.9B
total imports (2024)
5
mainly-from-China dependencies
26
supplier ≠ the lead miner
How to read this. Each row is where Poland imports a material from — the immediate customs origin, sorted by single-supplier concentration. marks a top source that is also the material's lead miner (a genuine origin); without it, the supplier is a refiner or hub and the real mine sits further upstream (open the material's profile to see where).

Import-vulnerability index (14/100). A value-weighted average, across Poland’s imports, of each material’s supply-risk index × how concentrated Poland’s own sourcing of it is. High when it buys intrinsically risky materials from a single supplier; lower when it diversifies. The risk column below is the material’s own score — multiply it by the country’s share to see where Poland is most exposed.
China’s share of Poland’s critical-material imports, 2002–2024: 8% ↓ 6%
Poland — import sources by material (2024)
MaterialTop sourceshareimport HHIriskChina# sourcesimports
Ferro-niobium🇧🇷 Brazil 92%0.84640%6$12M
Strontium carbonate🇯🇵 Japan92%0.84571%7$1M
Magnesium, unwrought🇨🇳 China 89%0.806089%9$5M
Refined copper cathodes🇩🇪 Germany86%0.75240%9$112M
Natural borates🇹🇷 Turkey 84%0.73410%5$1M
Tantalum, unwrought🇭🇺 Hungary83%0.69332%5$182k
Rare-earth permanent magnets🇨🇳 China 75%0.605275%15$135M
Phosphorus🇰🇿 Kazakhstan75%0.62560%6$47M
Germanium🇩🇪 Germany70%0.51472%7$510k
Gallium🇩🇪 Germany70%0.51582%7$510k
Hafnium, unwrought🇩🇪 Germany70%0.51332%7$510k
Titanium, unwrought🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia67%0.47439%7$2M
Palladium, unwrought🇮🇹 Italy64%0.53250%6$201M
Arsenic🇨🇳 China64%0.443164%6$94k
Natural graphite🇧🇷 Brazil57%0.40514%6$2M
Platinum, unwrought🇬🇧 United Kingdom57%0.49390%6$152M
Fluorspar, >97% CaF2🇩🇪 Germany56%0.44501%6$3M
Helium🇫🇷 France47%0.28217%8$50M
Baryte🇳🇱 Netherlands46%0.26150%11$6M
Phosphate rock🇲🇦 Morocco46%0.31300%7$14M
Beryllium, unwrought🇩🇪 Germany40%0.34740%4$51k
Feldspar🇹🇷 Turkey 38%0.30270%10$18M
Tungsten, unwrought🇨🇳 China 36%0.265036%6$384k
Cobalt oxides & hydroxides🇨🇳 China33%0.245233%6$453k
Ferro-vanadium🇦🇹 Austria33%0.23464%10$18M
Antimony, unwrought🇹🇭 Thailand32%0.223519%7$2M
Coking coal🇰🇿 Kazakhstan32%0.20220%14$1.0B
Aluminium ores / bauxite🇩🇪 Germany31%0.174511%12$17M
Lithium carbonate🇨🇱 Chile29%0.24650%8$3M
Manganese ore🇳🇱 Netherlands25%0.18460%9$4M
Silicon, < 99.99%🇲🇾 Malaysia23%0.16470%15$61M
Nickel, unwrought🇷🇺 Russia22%0.16320%9$24M
See Poland's trade on the map → All countries The origin gap

Computed from out/flows_2024.json + out/data.json by build_profiles.py. Customs records the immediate shipper, not the mine — see methodology.