Japan - Ores and metals imports

Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in Japan was 9.37 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.90 in 1970 and a minimum value of 4.76 in 2002.

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 16.32
1963 14.93
1964 17.32
1965 17.32
1966 18.11
1967 20.44
1968 19.50
1969 20.87
1970 20.90
1971 18.07
1972 15.83
1973 15.98
1974 12.94
1975 10.84
1976 10.29
1977 10.12
1978 9.99
1979 10.11
1980 9.99
1981 8.83
1982 8.90
1983 9.30
1984 9.18
1985 8.91
1986 8.79
1987 8.89
1988 10.29
1989 9.93
1990 8.87
1991 8.54
1992 7.00
1993 6.38
1994 6.21
1995 6.54
1996 5.51
1997 6.02
1998 5.97
1999 5.46
2000 5.52
2001 5.01
2002 4.76
2003 4.90
2004 5.71
2005 6.02
2006 7.66
2007 8.81
2008 7.84
2009 6.29
2010 8.18
2011 8.03
2012 6.60
2013 6.41
2014 6.45
2015 6.34
2016 5.81
2017 6.39
2018 6.42
2019 6.38
2020 7.29
2021 9.37

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports