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Sweden — critical-material dependency

Sweden imports 32 of the 32 critical materials this atlas tracks ($2.0B). Its most supplier-concentrated dependence is beryllium, unwrought (100% from Norway); 2 of those imports come mainly from China.

11/100
import-vulnerability index
32
critical materials imported
$2.0B
total imports (2024)
2
mainly-from-China dependencies
28
supplier ≠ the lead miner
How to read this. Each row is where Sweden 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 (11/100). A value-weighted average, across Sweden’s imports, of each material’s supply-risk index × how concentrated Sweden’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 Sweden is most exposed.
China’s share of Sweden’s critical-material imports, 2002–2024: 0% → 1%
Sweden — import sources by material (2024)
MaterialTop sourceshareimport HHIriskChina# sourcesimports
Beryllium, unwrought🇳🇴 Norway100%1.00740%1$1k
Phosphate rock🇵🇱 Poland99%0.98300%3$34k
Arsenic🇧🇪 Belgium99%0.98310%4$436k
Ferro-niobium🇳🇱 Netherlands99%0.98640%5$54M
Tantalum, unwrought🇺🇸 United States99%0.97330%2$38k
Phosphorus🇮🇹 Italy97%0.94560%4$104k
Tungsten, unwrought🇯🇵 Japan96%0.92500%4$426k
Strontium carbonate🇩🇪 Germany91%0.84570%4$201k
Cobalt oxides & hydroxides🇫🇮 Finland89%0.80520%7$260k
Silicon, < 99.99%🇳🇴 Norway85%0.72470%7$18M
Antimony, unwrought🇩🇰 Denmark70%0.53350%6$169k
Natural graphite🇩🇪 Germany69%0.56510%6$598k
Rare-earth permanent magnets🇨🇳 China 67%0.485267%7$13M
Coking coal🇦🇺 Australia 64%0.48221%7$448M
Feldspar🇫🇮 Finland63%0.44270%9$2M
Platinum, unwrought🇮🇹 Italy63%0.50390%7$2M
Titanium, unwrought🇨🇳 China 60%0.404360%9$4M
Fluorspar, >97% CaF2🇨🇿 Czech Republic60%0.52500%4$2M
Baryte🇳🇱 Netherlands59%0.401522%9$2M
Helium🇫🇷 France58%0.39213%8$17M
Natural borates🇫🇮 Finland52%0.46410%6$3M
Palladium, unwrought🇬🇧 United Kingdom45%0.33251%7$2M
Ferro-vanadium🇮🇪 Ireland44%0.28460%6$11M
Manganese ore🇷🇴 Romania43%0.28460%6$212k
Nickel, unwrought🇳🇴 Norway41%0.25320%15$343M
Aluminium ores / bauxite🇩🇪 Germany41%0.24459%7$4M
Magnesium, unwrought🇩🇪 Germany38%0.27600%7$615k
Lithium carbonate🇬🇧 United Kingdom32%0.26650%7$1M
Germanium🇩🇪 Germany31%0.234724%6$1M
Gallium🇩🇪 Germany31%0.235824%6$1M
Hafnium, unwrought🇩🇪 Germany31%0.233324%6$1M
Refined copper cathodes🇨🇱 Chile 24%0.16240%9$1.0B
See Sweden'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.