Pacific island small states - Ores and metals exports

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in Pacific island small states was 2.03 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2.17 in 2017 and a minimum value of 0.09 in 1981.

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
1970 1.33
1971 0.89
1972 0.61
1973 1.51
1974 0.93
1975 1.09
1976 0.81
1977 0.70
1978 0.76
1979 0.74
1980 0.12
1981 0.09
1982 0.15
2002 0.21
2003 0.27
2004 0.44
2005 0.47
2006 0.65
2007 0.74
2008 1.05
2009 0.60
2010 0.96
2011 1.34
2012 1.46
2013 1.69
2014 1.60
2015 1.80
2016 1.06
2017 2.17
2018 2.03

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports