Private Sector & Trade · Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC): Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)
Yearly data from 1965 to 2024, from the World Bank.
Private Sector & Trade · Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)
Yearly data from 1965 to 2024, from the World Bank.
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)'s ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) was 20.2% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 6.75 percentage points from 13.45% in 2014.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 20.2% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 15.53% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 13.45% | 2014 |
| Highest | 25.82% | 1970 |
| Lowest | 11.64% | 2012 |
| Average since 2015 | 16.54% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 20.83% | 1965 |
Over five years it is up 4.67 percentage points from 15.53% in 2019. Since 1965 it is down 0.63 percentage points from 20.83% in 1965. The World Bank has no value for 16 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
In 2024, Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)'s ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) rose 3.99 percentage points on 2023 (from 16.21% to 20.2%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1978 to 2023), the average change was −0.08 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.61 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.5 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.99 percentage points in 2024 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.09 percentage points in 1968. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.39 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 47% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) | 20.2% | 2024 |
| World | 4% | 2025 |
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). Exports of services are services provided by residents to non-residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise exports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-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.
| Year | Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 20.2 |
| 2023 | 16.21 |
| 2022 | 17.87 |
| 2021 | 16.87 |
| 2020 | 17.77 |
| 2019 | 15.53 |
| 2018 | 14.02 |
| 2017 | 15.17 |
| 2016 | 15.6 |
| 2015 | 16.19 |
| 2014 | 13.45 |
| 2013 | 13.56 |
| 2012 | 11.64 |
| 2011 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 14.98 |
| 2009 | 12.02 |
| 2008 | 15.57 |
| 2007 | 15.24 |
| 2006 | 15.07 |
| 2005 | 13.95 |
| 2004 | 12.52 |
| 2003 | 11.73 |
| 2002 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 13.94 |
| 2000 | 13.13 |
| 1999 | 11.94 |
| 1998 | 13.25 |
| 1997 | 14.7 |
| 1996 | 15.69 |
| 1995 | 15.44 |
| 1994 | no data |
| 1993 | no data |
| 1992 | no data |
| 1991 | no data |
| 1990 | no data |
| 1989 | no data |
| 1988 | no data |
| 1987 | no data |
| 1986 | no data |
| 1985 | no data |
| 1984 | no data |
| 1983 | no data |
| 1982 | no data |
| 1981 | no data |
| 1980 | no data |
| 1979 | 19.66 |
| 1978 | 21.97 |
| 1977 | 22.93 |
| 1976 | 21.34 |
| 1975 | 22.84 |
| 1974 | 22.94 |
| 1973 | 24.24 |
| 1972 | 24.63 |
| 1971 | 21.78 |
| 1970 | 25.82 |
| 1969 | no data |
| 1968 | 15.65 |
| 1967 | 21.74 |
| 1966 | 22.44 |
| 1965 | 20.83 |
Every indicator for Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) is on the Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator TX.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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