OECD members - Ores and metals imports
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)
The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in OECD members was 4.10 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9.24 in 1966 and a minimum value of 2.80 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 through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.
See also:
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 9.14 |
| 1963 | 8.03 |
| 1964 | 8.63 |
| 1965 | 9.02 |
| 1966 | 9.24 |
| 1967 | 8.81 |
| 1968 | 8.95 |
| 1969 | 8.58 |
| 1970 | 8.44 |
| 1971 | 6.95 |
| 1972 | 6.12 |
| 1973 | 6.38 |
| 1974 | 6.63 |
| 1975 | 5.44 |
| 1976 | 5.40 |
| 1977 | 5.13 |
| 1978 | 4.85 |
| 1979 | 5.17 |
| 1980 | 5.50 |
| 1981 | 4.70 |
| 1982 | 4.28 |
| 1983 | 4.56 |
| 1984 | 4.55 |
| 1985 | 4.25 |
| 1986 | 4.04 |
| 1987 | 3.93 |
| 1989 | 4.73 |
| 1990 | 4.03 |
| 1991 | 3.67 |
| 1992 | 3.33 |
| 1993 | 3.24 |
| 1994 | 3.41 |
| 1995 | 3.69 |
| 1996 | 3.20 |
| 1997 | 3.36 |
| 1998 | 3.29 |
| 1999 | 3.04 |
| 2000 | 3.17 |
| 2001 | 3.05 |
| 2002 | 2.84 |
| 2003 | 2.80 |
| 2004 | 3.18 |
| 2005 | 3.30 |
| 2006 | 4.20 |
| 2007 | 4.37 |
| 2008 | 3.97 |
| 2009 | 3.14 |
| 2010 | 3.99 |
| 2011 | 4.26 |
| 2012 | 3.76 |
| 2013 | 3.48 |
| 2014 | 3.43 |
| 2015 | 3.25 |
| 2016 | 3.06 |
| 2017 | 3.38 |
| 2018 | 3.47 |
| 2019 | 3.35 |
| 2020 | 3.63 |
| 2021 | 4.10 |
Classification
Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators
Sub-Topic: Imports
