Euro area - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in Euro area was 3.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9.64 in 1968 and a minimum value of 2.90 in 2003.
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 | 9.08 |
| 1963 | 7.49 |
| 1964 | 8.66 |
| 1965 | 9.16 |
| 1966 | 9.42 |
| 1967 | 8.87 |
| 1968 | 9.64 |
| 1969 | 9.45 |
| 1970 | 8.99 |
| 1971 | 7.28 |
| 1972 | 6.27 |
| 1973 | 6.61 |
| 1974 | 7.25 |
| 1975 | 5.67 |
| 1976 | 5.75 |
| 1977 | 5.59 |
| 1978 | 4.94 |
| 1979 | 5.35 |
| 1980 | 5.55 |
| 1981 | 4.66 |
| 1982 | 4.42 |
| 1983 | 4.60 |
| 1984 | 4.91 |
| 1985 | 4.74 |
| 1986 | 4.22 |
| 1987 | 3.82 |
| 1988 | 4.39 |
| 1989 | 4.79 |
| 1990 | 3.94 |
| 1991 | 3.46 |
| 1992 | 3.31 |
| 1993 | 3.18 |
| 1994 | 3.56 |
| 1995 | 3.89 |
| 1996 | 3.30 |
| 1997 | 3.52 |
| 1998 | 3.34 |
| 1999 | 3.08 |
| 2000 | 3.30 |
| 2001 | 3.11 |
| 2002 | 2.98 |
| 2003 | 2.90 |
| 2004 | 3.24 |
| 2005 | 3.42 |
| 2006 | 4.46 |
| 2007 | 4.59 |
| 2008 | 4.00 |
| 2009 | 2.96 |
| 2010 | 4.12 |
| 2011 | 4.41 |
| 2012 | 3.98 |
| 2013 | 3.69 |
| 2014 | 3.68 |
| 2015 | 3.50 |
| 2016 | 3.26 |
| 2017 | 3.58 |
| 2018 | 3.70 |
| 2019 | 3.51 |
| 2020 | 3.70 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
