United Kingdom - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in United Kingdom was 4.95 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11.58 in 1969 and a minimum value of 2.15 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 | 9.33 |
| 1963 | 8.66 |
| 1964 | 10.13 |
| 1965 | 10.75 |
| 1966 | 11.18 |
| 1967 | 9.86 |
| 1968 | 11.38 |
| 1969 | 11.58 |
| 1970 | 11.28 |
| 1971 | 8.56 |
| 1972 | 7.10 |
| 1973 | 7.13 |
| 1974 | 7.28 |
| 1975 | 6.02 |
| 1976 | 6.15 |
| 1977 | 5.60 |
| 1978 | 4.74 |
| 1979 | 5.61 |
| 1980 | 7.33 |
| 1981 | 5.62 |
| 1982 | 4.79 |
| 1983 | 5.49 |
| 1984 | 4.58 |
| 1985 | 4.23 |
| 1986 | 3.81 |
| 1987 | 3.64 |
| 1988 | 3.97 |
| 1989 | 4.12 |
| 1990 | 3.83 |
| 1991 | 3.49 |
| 1992 | 3.17 |
| 1993 | 3.42 |
| 1994 | 3.06 |
| 1995 | 3.38 |
| 1996 | 3.12 |
| 1997 | 3.05 |
| 1998 | 2.98 |
| 1999 | 2.62 |
| 2000 | 2.72 |
| 2001 | 2.71 |
| 2002 | 2.23 |
| 2003 | 2.15 |
| 2004 | 2.27 |
| 2005 | 2.41 |
| 2006 | 3.17 |
| 2007 | 3.45 |
| 2008 | 3.41 |
| 2009 | 2.94 |
| 2010 | 4.03 |
| 2011 | 4.29 |
| 2012 | 4.03 |
| 2013 | 3.54 |
| 2014 | 2.98 |
| 2015 | 2.62 |
| 2016 | 2.43 |
| 2017 | 2.92 |
| 2018 | 2.82 |
| 2019 | 2.99 |
| 2020 | 3.74 |
| 2021 | 4.95 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
