Ores and metals imports

Ores and metals comprise the commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 27 (crude fertilizer, minerals nes); 28 (metalliferous ores, scrap); and 68 (non-ferrous metals). Imports of services are services provided by non-residents to residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise imports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a non-resident and a resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
198
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    United Nations

    Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Integrated Trade Solution

    World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Australia20251.86percent
Azerbaijan20251.24percent
Belize20250.59percent
Bhutan20252.32percent
Bosnia and Herzegovina20255.64percent
Brazil20252.92percent
Chile20251.84percent
Denmark20251.97percent
Guyana20250.72percent
Hungary20252.33percent

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