Sri Lanka - Ores and metals exports

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in Sri Lanka was 0.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6.27 in 1976 and a minimum value of 0.23 in 1999.

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
1962 0.32
1963 0.33
1964 0.41
1965 0.38
1966 0.48
1967 0.54
1968 0.56
1969 0.67
1970 0.70
1971 0.76
1972 1.46
1974 3.93
1975 5.28
1976 6.27
1977 4.96
1978 4.79
1979 0.93
1980 0.85
1981 0.82
1982 0.86
1983 0.81
1984 0.90
1985 1.06
1986 1.64
1987 1.15
1990 1.58
1991 0.70
1992 0.78
1993 0.76
1994 0.65
1999 0.23
2000 0.28
2001 0.30
2002 1.87
2003 2.86
2004 3.12
2005 3.62
2006 1.82
2007 2.10
2008 1.65
2009 1.41
2010 0.88
2011 0.61
2012 0.76
2013 0.62
2014 0.56
2015 0.54
2016 0.60
2017 0.78
2019 0.74
2020 0.55

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports