Belgium - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in Belgium was 5.71 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.68 in 1968 and a minimum value of 2.96 in 2002.
Definition: Ores and metals comprise commodities in SITC sections 27 (crude fertilizer, minerals nes); 28 (metalliferous ores, scrap); and 68 (non-ferrous metals).
Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.
See also:
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 13.12 |
| 1963 | 11.43 |
| 1964 | 12.11 |
| 1965 | 12.53 |
| 1966 | 13.68 |
| 1967 | 12.90 |
| 1968 | 14.68 |
| 1969 | 13.32 |
| 1970 | 13.35 |
| 1971 | 9.79 |
| 1972 | 8.67 |
| 1973 | 9.62 |
| 1974 | 10.46 |
| 1975 | 7.63 |
| 1976 | 7.73 |
| 1977 | 6.74 |
| 1978 | 6.27 |
| 1979 | 7.14 |
| 1980 | 8.22 |
| 1981 | 7.25 |
| 1982 | 6.36 |
| 1983 | 7.10 |
| 1984 | 6.88 |
| 1985 | 6.84 |
| 1986 | 5.64 |
| 1987 | 5.27 |
| 1999 | 3.44 |
| 2000 | 3.49 |
| 2001 | 3.13 |
| 2002 | 2.96 |
| 2003 | 3.08 |
| 2004 | 3.61 |
| 2005 | 3.58 |
| 2006 | 4.66 |
| 2007 | 4.81 |
| 2008 | 3.91 |
| 2009 | 3.06 |
| 2010 | 5.10 |
| 2011 | 5.13 |
| 2012 | 4.78 |
| 2013 | 4.22 |
| 2014 | 4.18 |
| 2015 | 4.02 |
| 2016 | 3.67 |
| 2017 | 3.90 |
| 2018 | 4.71 |
| 2019 | 4.52 |
| 2020 | 5.32 |
| 2021 | 5.71 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
