North America - Ores and metals exports
Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)
The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in North America was 4.79 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8.54 in 1965 and a minimum value of 2.34 in 1999.
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 | 8.28 |
| 1963 | 8.28 |
| 1964 | 8.44 |
| 1965 | 8.54 |
| 1966 | 8.03 |
| 1967 | 8.07 |
| 1968 | 8.09 |
| 1969 | 7.87 |
| 1970 | 8.46 |
| 1971 | 6.24 |
| 1972 | 5.71 |
| 1973 | 6.28 |
| 1974 | 6.23 |
| 1975 | 5.56 |
| 1976 | 5.19 |
| 1977 | 4.95 |
| 1978 | 4.83 |
| 1979 | 5.73 |
| 1980 | 6.98 |
| 1981 | 4.91 |
| 1982 | 4.23 |
| 1983 | 4.24 |
| 1984 | 4.16 |
| 1985 | 4.02 |
| 1986 | 3.90 |
| 1987 | 3.83 |
| 1989 | 4.47 |
| 1990 | 4.21 |
| 1991 | 3.84 |
| 1992 | 3.35 |
| 1993 | 2.94 |
| 1994 | 2.95 |
| 1995 | 3.49 |
| 1996 | 3.02 |
| 1997 | 2.94 |
| 1998 | 2.63 |
| 1999 | 2.34 |
| 2000 | 2.46 |
| 2001 | 2.48 |
| 2002 | 2.45 |
| 2003 | 2.54 |
| 2004 | 3.05 |
| 2005 | 3.44 |
| 2006 | 4.47 |
| 2007 | 4.92 |
| 2008 | 4.89 |
| 2009 | 4.19 |
| 2010 | 4.82 |
| 2011 | 5.03 |
| 2012 | 4.32 |
| 2013 | 4.02 |
| 2014 | 3.92 |
| 2015 | 3.72 |
| 2016 | 3.51 |
| 2017 | 3.73 |
| 2018 | 3.94 |
| 2019 | 3.72 |
| 2020 | 4.31 |
| 2021 | 4.79 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Exports
