Korea - Ores and metals exports

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in Korea was 2.61 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.41 in 1962 and a minimum value of 0.66 in 1986.

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 24.41
1963 15.93
1964 17.32
1965 14.29
1966 11.30
1967 9.09
1968 7.37
1969 6.26
1970 5.67
1971 3.46
1972 2.37
1973 1.54
1974 1.66
1975 1.30
1976 1.08
1977 1.11
1978 0.96
1979 0.95
1980 1.13
1981 0.95
1982 0.97
1983 1.05
1984 0.74
1985 0.68
1986 0.66
1987 0.74
1988 0.86
1989 1.06
1990 0.83
1991 0.71
1992 0.83
1993 0.76
1994 0.96
1995 1.01
1996 0.90
1997 1.35
1998 1.67
1999 1.36
2000 1.24
2001 1.26
2002 1.34
2003 1.46
2004 1.66
2005 1.69
2006 2.48
2007 2.47
2008 2.21
2009 1.91
2010 2.07
2011 2.27
2012 2.11
2013 1.98
2014 2.01
2015 2.02
2016 2.07
2017 2.05
2018 2.17
2019 2.26
2020 2.61

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports