North America - Ores and metals imports

Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in North America was 3.07 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11.32 in 1962 and a minimum value of 1.81 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
1962 11.32
1963 10.42
1964 10.15
1965 10.32
1966 10.22
1967 9.46
1968 8.82
1969 7.25
1970 7.11
1971 5.88
1972 5.44
1973 5.54
1974 5.74
1975 4.83
1976 4.74
1977 4.22
1978 4.35
1979 4.48
1980 4.74
1981 4.16
1982 3.37
1983 3.79
1984 3.40
1985 2.81
1986 2.85
1987 2.62
1989 3.39
1990 3.05
1991 2.71
1992 2.49
1993 2.32
1994 2.50
1995 2.77
1996 2.51
1997 2.47
1998 2.42
1999 2.22
2000 2.27
2001 2.18
2002 1.92
2003 1.81
2004 2.14
2005 2.27
2006 2.84
2007 2.89
2008 2.70
2009 2.10
2010 2.42
2011 2.73
2012 2.36
2013 2.25
2014 2.25
2015 2.11
2016 2.04
2017 2.35
2018 2.39
2019 2.27
2020 2.51
2021 3.07

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports