IDA total - Ores and metals exports

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in IDA total was 8.65 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.00 in 1974 and a minimum value of 4.68 in 2009.

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 11.37
1971 8.78
1972 12.08
1974 13.00
1976 11.07
1977 7.79
1978 7.31
1979 5.98
1996 5.52
1997 5.64
1998 6.54
2000 6.99
2001 6.49
2002 6.38
2003 6.34
2006 5.71
2007 6.56
2008 6.40
2009 4.68
2010 6.94
2011 8.60
2012 7.91
2013 6.54
2014 8.17
2015 7.87
2016 8.51
2017 8.13
2018 7.95
2019 8.65

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports