Algeria's ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) was 4.3% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 2.88 percentage points from 1.42% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 4.3% | 2024 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.42% | 2014 |
| Highest | 4.3% | 2024 |
| Lowest | 1.1% | 1997 |
| Average since 2015 | 2.23% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 1.22% | 1966 |
Since 1966 it is up 3.08 percentage points from 1.22% in 1966. The World Bank has no value for 12 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.7 percentage points in 1987 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.54 percentage points in 1982. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Algeria had the 7th highest value of the 36 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 4.3% | 2024 |
| World | 5% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 9.64% | 2025 |
Closest to Algeria in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
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.
Limitations: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 47 values
| Year | Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | no data |
| 2022 | no data |
| 2021 | no data |
| 2020 | no data |
| 2019 | no data |
| 2018 | no data |
| 2017 | 1.47 |
| 2016 | 1.61 |
| 2015 | 1.54 |
| 2014 |
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 1.69% (2019)
- Bahrain — 22.03% (2024)
- Djibouti — 0.48% (2023)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 5.88% (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 1.87% (2023)
- Iraq — 3.53% (2024)
- Israel — 1.6% (2025)
- Jordan — 2.18% (2024)
- Kuwait — 2.24% (2025)
- Lebanon
More private sector & trade data for Algeria
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 33.27% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$50.1 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$45.4 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World (% of total merchandise imports) — 8.69% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 53.3% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 43.09% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 22.48% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Algeria's ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)?
- 4.3% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1966?
- It is up 3.08 percentage points from 1.22% in 1966. The highest value was 4.3% in 2024 and the lowest 1.1% in 1997.
- How does Algeria rank?
- 7th highest of 36 economies with data for 2024.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB).
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TM.VAL.MMTL.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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