Middle income - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in Middle income was 7.14 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 36 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 7.36 in 2011 and a minimum value of 3.42 in 1986.
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 |
|---|---|
| 1984 | 4.28 |
| 1985 | 3.92 |
| 1986 | 3.42 |
| 1987 | 3.78 |
| 1992 | 4.10 |
| 1993 | 3.51 |
| 1994 | 3.53 |
| 1995 | 3.96 |
| 1996 | 3.78 |
| 1997 | 3.73 |
| 1998 | 3.71 |
| 1999 | 3.77 |
| 2000 | 3.96 |
| 2001 | 3.92 |
| 2002 | 3.67 |
| 2003 | 3.82 |
| 2004 | 4.72 |
| 2005 | 5.20 |
| 2006 | 5.70 |
| 2007 | 6.57 |
| 2008 | 7.02 |
| 2009 | 6.70 |
| 2010 | 7.08 |
| 2011 | 7.36 |
| 2012 | 6.70 |
| 2013 | 6.48 |
| 2014 | 6.10 |
| 2015 | 5.68 |
| 2016 | 5.49 |
| 2017 | 6.13 |
| 2018 | 6.14 |
| 2019 | 6.46 |
| 2020 | 7.14 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
