Timor-Leste: Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)

Key figures

How it compares

In 2023, Timor-Leste had the 23rd highest value of the 24 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.

Closest to Timor-Leste in the 2023 ranking

• Djibouti — 20th of 24: 0.48%
• Mali — 21st of 24: 0.44%
• Comoros — 22nd of 24: 0.36%
• Mongolia — 24th of 24: 0.32%

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 10 values

Ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports) in nearby economies

• Australia — 1.86% (2025)
• Brunei Darussalam — 0.31% (2025)
• Cambodia — 3.13% (2024)
• China — 16.07% (2025)
• Fiji — 1.03% (2025)
• French Polynesia — 0.48% (2025)
• Hong Kong SAR, China — 1.91% (2025)
• Indonesia — 4.68% (2025)
• Japan — 6.98% (2025)
• Kiribati

More private sector & trade data for Timor-Leste

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 56.88% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$979 million (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$103 million (2025)
• Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise exports) — 2.15% (2023)
• Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise exports) — 0.27% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise exports) — 0% (2023)
• Merchandise exports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$165.55 million (2023)
• Import unit value index (2015 = 100)

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Questions people ask

What is Timor-Leste's ores and metals imports (% of merchandise imports)?

0.35% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2004?

It is down 1.86 percentage points from 2.2% in 2004. The highest value was 2.2% in 2004 and the lowest 0.3% in 2022.

How does Timor-Leste rank?

23rd highest of 24 economies with data for 2023.

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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