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 |
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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