South Africa - Ores and metals imports

Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in South Africa was 2.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3.36 in 2008 and a minimum value of 1.58 in 1992.

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
1974 3.10
1975 2.84
1976 2.79
1977 2.82
1978 2.33
1979 2.48
1980 2.07
1981 1.67
1982 1.59
1983 1.65
1984 2.01
1985 2.38
1992 1.58
1993 1.68
1994 1.60
1995 2.38
1996 2.27
1997 2.19
1998 2.30
1999 2.62
2000 2.65
2001 2.12
2002 2.54
2003 2.70
2004 2.81
2005 2.56
2006 3.20
2007 3.30
2008 3.36
2009 1.86
2010 2.33
2011 2.42
2012 2.26
2013 2.22
2014 2.20
2015 2.67
2016 2.67
2017 2.74
2018 2.77
2019 2.59
2020 2.73

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports