United States - Ores and metals exports

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in United States was 3.65 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5.21 in 1970 and a minimum value of 1.77 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.

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Year Value
1962 3.97
1963 4.07
1964 4.53
1965 4.53
1966 4.40
1967 4.44
1968 4.50
1969 5.03
1970 5.21
1971 3.31
1972 3.09
1973 3.60
1974 3.75
1975 3.36
1976 2.88
1977 2.71
1978 2.92
1979 3.96
1980 5.10
1981 3.05
1982 2.73
1983 2.88
1984 2.88
1985 2.82
1986 2.66
1987 2.55
1989 3.21
1990 3.04
1991 2.78
1992 2.30
1993 2.09
1994 2.15
1995 2.62
1996 2.18
1997 2.12
1998 1.90
1999 1.77
2000 1.87
2001 1.91
2002 1.91
2003 2.01
2004 2.39
2005 2.79
2006 3.52
2007 3.74
2008 3.97
2009 3.39
2010 3.96
2011 4.02
2012 3.51
2013 3.21
2014 3.06
2015 2.81
2016 2.60
2017 2.75
2018 2.96
2019 2.82
2020 3.21
2021 3.65

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports