Zambia - Ores and metals imports

Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in Zambia was 3.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.06 in 2010 and a minimum value of 0.67 in 1967.

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.

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Year Value
1966 0.94
1967 0.67
1970 1.19
1971 1.33
1972 1.36
1973 1.23
1974 0.98
1975 0.91
1976 1.20
1977 1.10
1978 1.12
1979 1.35
1995 2.13
1996 2.41
1997 3.27
1998 1.99
1999 0.84
2000 3.01
2001 1.67
2002 1.56
2003 2.85
2004 2.74
2005 3.18
2006 3.21
2007 5.82
2008 13.08
2009 13.36
2010 21.06
2011 17.46
2012 14.58
2013 16.52
2014 19.52
2015 6.81
2016 10.78
2017 13.90
2018 15.67
2019 5.10
2020 3.84

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports