Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Ores and metals imports

Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 1.49 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 52 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.46 in 2011 and a minimum value of 1.06 in 1967.

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
1967 1.06
1970 1.09
1971 1.08
1972 1.08
1974 1.08
1975 1.11
1976 1.25
1977 1.26
1978 1.29
1979 1.27
1995 1.61
1997 1.46
1998 1.43
1999 1.25
2000 1.36
2001 1.34
2002 1.38
2003 1.33
2004 1.22
2005 1.24
2006 1.21
2007 1.43
2008 1.70
2009 1.54
2010 1.85
2011 2.46
2012 2.13
2013 2.11
2014 2.23
2015 1.62
2016 1.73
2017 2.28
2018 2.33
2019 1.49

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports