Gabon - Ores and metals exports

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in Gabon was 3.03 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 40.14 in 1966 and a minimum value of 1.06 in 2003.

Definition: Ores and metals comprise the 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 17.65
1963 28.63
1964 30.77
1965 36.98
1966 40.14
1967 33.90
1968 26.87
1969 25.43
1970 13.68
1971 22.05
1975 10.19
1976 12.15
1977 9.35
1978 18.34
1979 13.09
1980 12.05
1981 5.30
1982 5.12
1983 7.04
1993 6.11
1994 3.41
1996 2.03
1997 5.72
1998 2.68
1999 2.33
2000 1.73
2001 1.50
2002 1.77
2003 1.06
2004 5.51
2005 3.59
2006 3.15
2007 3.60
2008 2.21
2009 3.03

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports