Southeast Asia
Myanmar
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is Myanmar's #5 import source (world lens). Myanmar is the EU's #82 goods supplier.
Myanmar on the world stage
Total imports
$24.9bn
2024 annual
Total exports
$29.8bn
110 partners
#1 import source
India
1.4%
#1 export dest.
Japan
3.2%
2024 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Myanmar and the EU
EU imports from
€3.0bn
0.1% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€355m
0.0% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #82 supplier
EU trade balance
one-sided
coverage 0.12
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
44
EUR/MWh
Consumer
22
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
579
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
58%
of generation
regulated market
Power market
● Conflict / governance collapseMarket model
State monopoly (single-buyer style)
Direct PPA
None
grid access: closed
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Not independent
Ministry of Electric Power (MOEP)
A political-crisis collapse of generation, gas supply, grid maintenance and investment since the 2021 coup; peak output has fallen by roughly a third and barely half of demand is met, a governance- and conflict-made…
Tracked infrastructure
13 gas plants
1.7 GW · 1 building
3 coal plants
150 MW
9 solar farms
290 MW
10 hydro plants
2.6 GW · 3 building
6 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
30
none in the merged layer
Acid-drainage prone
9
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Gold, Copper, Nickel
Mine-water verifiability
Blind spot
rare-earth and tin sector; only citizen-science data
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Monitored ports (1)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
29.8
→ 36.3 by 2050
Fertility
2.1
above replacement
Working-age
68.4%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
10.7
→ 20.1 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 54.5M · peaks 2049
By 2050: +8% (58.6M)