Import of goods by the BRICS countries 2000-2023

Since 2000, China has consistently been the largest importer of goods of the BRICS countries, with a value of more than two trillion U.S. dollars in 2020. China's value of imported goods has grown significantly across these two decades; values in 2018 were over nine times larger than values for 2000. India's imports in 2018 were also 10 times higher in 2018 than in 2000. For Russia and Brazil, however, their peak years came in the early-2010s, just before both countries went into recession. South Africa's value of imported goods has also increased, and was over 100 billion U.S. dollars in most years of the 2010s. In 2000, the value of goods imported to China was comparable to the other four BRICS countries combined; in 2022, the value was more than double the other countries combined.