Myanmar
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
U.S. sanctions — Burma sanctions. Blocking sanctions on the military regime, state banks, and key sectors.
As of August 2026 — verify with OFAC and screen counterparties with the xin.bz OFAC search.
- Region
- Asia · South-Eastern Asia
- Capital
- Naypyidaw
- Population
- 54,850,648 (2025)
- Government
- military regime
- Currency
- Burmese kyat (MMK)
- Official languages
- Burmese
- Spoken languages
- Burmese (official)
- Written scripts
- Burmese
- Area
- 676,578 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- ASEAN, IMF, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Bangladesh , China , India , Laos , Thailand
Political stability
30 / 100
Economic stability
23 / 100
Population stability
77 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- garments, natural gas, dried legumes, rare-earth metal compounds, precious stones (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, synthetic fabric, fertilizers, crude petroleum, fabric (2023)
- Natural resources
- petroleum, timber, tin, antimony, zinc, copper, tungsten, lead, coal, marble, limestone, precious stones
- Critical minerals
- Significant heavy rare-earth supplier.
- Luxury goods
- jade, rubies (widely sanctioned)
- Primary route
- Strait of Malacca corridor on Asia–Europe and intra-Asia lanes
- Secondary route
- Transpacific services to North America
The xin.bz view
- Myanmar is the quiet upstream of the heavy-rare-earth market: its ionic-clay feedstock supplies much of the dysprosium, terbium, and yttrium that Chinese separation plants turn into magnet additives — conflict and border policy there move global heavy-REE availability.
xin.bz coverage
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Dysprosium Is the Heat-Resistance Rare Earth That Keeps High-Performance Magnets Working Under Stress
Dysprosium deep dive — the heat-resistance additive high-performance magnets depend on, fed by Chinese and Myanmar heavy-REE supply with separation capacity as the chokepoint.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Terbium Is the Ultra-Scarce Magnet Additive Whose Value Comes From Heat, Efficiency, and Supply Concentration
Terbium deep dive — the ultra-scarce magnet additive priced on heat performance and supply concentration, fed by Chinese and Myanmar heavy-REE feedstock.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Yttrium Is the Heavy-Rare-Earth Workhorse Behind Ceramics, Lasers, Phosphors, and High-Temperature Materials
Yttrium deep dive — the heavy-rare-earth workhorse behind ceramics, lasers, phosphors, and thermal-barrier coatings, sourced mostly from southern Chinese ionic clays.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.