European Union - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in European Union was 3.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9.27 in 1966 and a minimum value of 2.87 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.
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| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 8.81 |
| 1963 | 7.32 |
| 1964 | 8.31 |
| 1965 | 8.83 |
| 1966 | 9.27 |
| 1967 | 8.51 |
| 1968 | 9.25 |
| 1969 | 9.08 |
| 1970 | 8.67 |
| 1971 | 7.00 |
| 1972 | 6.05 |
| 1973 | 6.36 |
| 1974 | 6.95 |
| 1975 | 5.47 |
| 1976 | 5.63 |
| 1977 | 5.46 |
| 1978 | 4.87 |
| 1979 | 5.27 |
| 1980 | 5.47 |
| 1981 | 4.61 |
| 1982 | 4.37 |
| 1983 | 4.55 |
| 1984 | 4.93 |
| 1985 | 4.66 |
| 1986 | 4.18 |
| 1987 | 3.88 |
| 1988 | 4.34 |
| 1989 | 4.77 |
| 1990 | 3.93 |
| 1991 | 3.49 |
| 1992 | 3.29 |
| 1993 | 3.18 |
| 1994 | 3.52 |
| 1995 | 3.82 |
| 1996 | 3.27 |
| 1997 | 3.46 |
| 1998 | 3.27 |
| 1999 | 3.03 |
| 2000 | 3.26 |
| 2001 | 3.07 |
| 2002 | 2.93 |
| 2003 | 2.87 |
| 2004 | 3.23 |
| 2005 | 3.34 |
| 2006 | 4.33 |
| 2007 | 4.45 |
| 2008 | 3.88 |
| 2009 | 2.92 |
| 2010 | 3.99 |
| 2011 | 4.26 |
| 2012 | 3.87 |
| 2013 | 3.61 |
| 2014 | 3.58 |
| 2015 | 3.43 |
| 2016 | 3.19 |
| 2017 | 3.50 |
| 2018 | 3.60 |
| 2019 | 3.41 |
| 2020 | 3.57 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
