Lower middle income - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in Lower middle income was 3.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5.00 in 1970 and a minimum value of 2.81 in 2003.
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 | 4.30 |
| 1968 | 3.79 |
| 1969 | 3.82 |
| 1970 | 5.00 |
| 1971 | 4.58 |
| 1972 | 4.47 |
| 1973 | 4.04 |
| 1974 | 3.93 |
| 1975 | 3.13 |
| 1976 | 3.09 |
| 1977 | 3.35 |
| 1978 | 3.56 |
| 1979 | 3.89 |
| 1980 | 3.72 |
| 1981 | 3.72 |
| 1983 | 3.51 |
| 1984 | 3.69 |
| 1985 | 4.38 |
| 1986 | 4.60 |
| 1987 | 4.68 |
| 1995 | 4.59 |
| 1996 | 4.19 |
| 1997 | 3.64 |
| 1998 | 3.32 |
| 1999 | 3.28 |
| 2000 | 3.07 |
| 2001 | 3.29 |
| 2002 | 3.02 |
| 2003 | 2.81 |
| 2004 | 3.20 |
| 2005 | 3.35 |
| 2006 | 3.83 |
| 2007 | 4.04 |
| 2008 | 4.18 |
| 2009 | 3.53 |
| 2010 | 3.53 |
| 2011 | 3.73 |
| 2012 | 3.57 |
| 2013 | 3.63 |
| 2014 | 3.67 |
| 2015 | 3.67 |
| 2016 | 3.32 |
| 2017 | 3.84 |
| 2018 | 3.96 |
| 2019 | 3.58 |
| 2020 | 3.72 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
