Korea - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in Korea was 7.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8.85 in 2011 and a minimum value of 2.60 in 1962.
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 |
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1962 | 2.60 |
1963 | 3.03 |
1964 | 3.08 |
1965 | 4.18 |
1966 | 4.00 |
1967 | 4.57 |
1968 | 4.07 |
1969 | 4.90 |
1970 | 5.75 |
1971 | 4.62 |
1972 | 3.62 |
1973 | 4.92 |
1974 | 6.25 |
1975 | 4.66 |
1976 | 5.16 |
1977 | 5.58 |
1978 | 5.09 |
1979 | 5.42 |
1980 | 5.81 |
1981 | 5.42 |
1982 | 5.61 |
1983 | 5.55 |
1984 | 5.30 |
1985 | 5.32 |
1986 | 6.25 |
1987 | 6.66 |
1988 | 7.58 |
1989 | 7.73 |
1990 | 6.63 |
1991 | 6.38 |
1992 | 5.75 |
1993 | 6.31 |
1994 | 6.03 |
1995 | 6.26 |
1996 | 5.13 |
1997 | 5.77 |
1998 | 6.74 |
1999 | 6.17 |
2000 | 5.51 |
2001 | 5.72 |
2002 | 5.43 |
2003 | 5.53 |
2004 | 6.69 |
2005 | 6.72 |
2006 | 8.09 |
2007 | 8.43 |
2008 | 7.52 |
2009 | 7.09 |
2010 | 8.07 |
2011 | 8.85 |
2012 | 7.90 |
2013 | 7.22 |
2014 | 7.14 |
2015 | 6.72 |
2016 | 6.55 |
2017 | 6.74 |
2018 | 6.51 |
2019 | 6.75 |
2020 | 7.19 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports