Slovenia's ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) was 3.25% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 2.88 percentage points from 6.12% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 3.25% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 4.75% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 6.12% | 2015 |
| Highest | 7.05% | 2006 |
| Lowest | 3.25% | 2025 |
| Average since 2016 | 4.81% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 4.61% | 1992 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Slovenia's ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 0.03 percentage points on 2024 (from 3.27% to 3.25%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1993 to 2024), the average change was −0.06 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.87 percentage points in 2010 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.13 percentage points in 2023. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.3 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 80% 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.
How it compares
In 2025, Slovenia had the 33rd highest value of the 103 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Slovenia | 3.25% | 2025 |
| World | 5% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 3.69% | 2025 |
| High income | 3.46% | 2025 |
Closest to Slovenia in the 2025 ranking
- Poland — 30th of 103: 3.54%
- Maldives — 31st of 103: 3.54%
- United Kingdom — 32nd of 103: 3.35%
- Saudi Arabia — 34th of 103: 3.13%
- Brazil — 35th of 103: 2.92%
- Croatia — 36th of 103: 2.79%
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 33 values
| Year | Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.25 |
| 2024 | 3.27 |
| 2023 | 3.81 |
| 2022 | 4.94 |
| 2021 | 5.54 |
| 2020 | 4.75 |
| 2019 | 5.12 |
| 2018 | 5.88 |
| 2017 | 5.89 |
| 2016 | 5.67 |
| 2015 |
Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies
- Albania — 1.27% (2024)
- Andorra — 0.55% (2025)
- Armenia — 2.47% (2025)
- Austria — 4.44% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 1.24% (2025)
- Belarus — 3.5% (2021)
- Belgium — 4.99% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 5.64% (2025)
- Bulgaria — 8.69% (2025)
- Croatia
More private sector & trade data for Slovenia
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 237.45% (2025)
- Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports) — 6.37% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$92.53 billion (2025)
- Computer, communications and other services (% of commercial service imports) — 47.14% (2025)
- Commercial service imports (current US$) — US$10.66 billion (2025)
- Transport services (% of commercial service imports) — 18.37% (2025)
- Travel services (% of commercial service imports) — 28.12% (2025)
- Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service exports) — 6.37% (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Slovenia's ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)?
- 3.25% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1992?
- It is down 1.36 percentage points from 4.61% in 1992. The highest value was 7.05% in 2006 and the lowest 3.25% in 2025.
- How does Slovenia rank?
- 33rd highest of 103 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) unusual for Slovenia?
- In 2025, Slovenia's ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) fell 0.03 percentage points on 2024 (from 3.27% to 3.25%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1993 to 2024), the average change was −0.06 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
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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