United States - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in United States was 2.32 as of 2010. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 12.58 in 1962 and a minimum value of 1.68 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 from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.
See also:
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 12.58 |
| 1963 | 11.43 |
| 1964 | 11.10 |
| 1965 | 11.30 |
| 1966 | 11.17 |
| 1967 | 10.46 |
| 1968 | 9.67 |
| 1969 | 7.90 |
| 1970 | 7.71 |
| 1971 | 6.30 |
| 1972 | 5.85 |
| 1973 | 5.93 |
| 1974 | 6.15 |
| 1975 | 5.15 |
| 1976 | 5.10 |
| 1977 | 4.53 |
| 1978 | 4.66 |
| 1979 | 4.69 |
| 1980 | 4.73 |
| 1981 | 4.23 |
| 1982 | 3.35 |
| 1983 | 3.84 |
| 1984 | 3.44 |
| 1985 | 2.81 |
| 1986 | 2.85 |
| 1987 | 2.63 |
| 1988 | 3.09 |
| 1989 | 3.15 |
| 1990 | 2.82 |
| 1991 | 2.49 |
| 1992 | 2.29 |
| 1993 | 2.13 |
| 1994 | 2.35 |
| 1995 | 2.58 |
| 1996 | 2.32 |
| 1997 | 2.33 |
| 1998 | 2.32 |
| 1999 | 2.13 |
| 2000 | 2.18 |
| 2001 | 2.09 |
| 2002 | 1.79 |
| 2003 | 1.68 |
| 2004 | 2.00 |
| 2005 | 2.17 |
| 2006 | 2.76 |
| 2007 | 2.80 |
| 2008 | 2.59 |
| 2009 | 2.02 |
| 2010 | 2.32 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
