Uruguay - Ores and metals exports

Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

The value for Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) in Uruguay was 0.385 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.865 in 1979 and a minimum value of 0.101 in 1983.

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 0.795
1971 0.675
1972 0.513
1974 0.286
1975 0.320
1976 0.356
1977 0.597
1978 0.577
1979 0.865
1980 0.722
1981 0.508
1982 0.129
1983 0.101
1984 0.159
1985 0.200
1986 0.232
1987 0.317
1993 0.447
1994 0.524
1995 0.663
1996 0.626
1997 0.666
1998 0.573
1999 0.435
2000 0.481
2001 0.578
2002 0.451
2003 0.537
2004 0.509
2005 0.515
2006 0.810
2007 0.848
2008 0.377
2009 0.269
2010 0.259
2011 0.340
2012 0.327
2013 0.302
2014 0.286
2015 0.237
2016 0.313
2017 0.320
2018 0.359
2019 0.331
2020 0.385

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exports