South Asia - Ores and metals exports

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in South Asia was 4.81 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11.22 in 1975 and a minimum value of 2.06 in 1998.

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 6.07
1963 7.09
1964 7.86
1965 8.04
1966 9.16
1967 8.93
1968 9.64
1969 9.80
1970 10.70
1971 8.93
1972 8.02
1973 6.76
1974 7.87
1975 11.22
1976 9.96
1977 6.67
1978 6.45
1979 5.39
1980 6.07
1981 5.01
1982 4.58
1983 4.39
1984 4.52
1985 6.80
1986 4.83
1987 4.62
1988 6.33
1989 6.76
1990 5.22
1991 5.07
1992 4.11
1993 3.33
1994 3.25
1995 3.32
1996 2.99
1997 2.62
1998 2.06
1999 2.26
2000 2.30
2001 2.43
2002 3.50
2003 3.19
2004 4.80
2005 6.24
2006 6.59
2007 6.43
2008 5.33
2009 5.22
2010 6.30
2011 3.34
2012 2.99
2013 2.67
2014 2.97
2015 2.85
2016 2.94
2017 3.73
2018 3.42
2019 3.38
2020 4.46
2021 4.81

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports