Ores and metals comprise commodities in SITC sections 27 (crude fertilizer, minerals nes); 28 (metalliferous ores, scrap); and 68 (non-ferrous metals).
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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| China | 5.9 | 9.0 | 14.3 | 14.7 | 13.1 | 12.7 | 11.5 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 11.3 | 10.7 | 11.9 | 13.8 | 15.3 | 13.5 | 14.6 | 15.1 | ||
| Japan | 20.9 | 8.9 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 7.3 | 9.4 | 7.6 | 7.0 | 7.2 |
| India | 9.9 | 8.1 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 6.5 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.9 |
| Republic of Korea | 5.7 | 6.6 | 5.5 | 6.7 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 6.7 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 7.2 | 8.5 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 6.7 |
| Armenia | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 5.7 | ||
| Malaysia | 5.8 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.0 |
| Thailand | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 |
| Philippines | 3.4 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 4.3 | 4.2 | |
| Pakistan | 2.9 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| Maldives | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 2.8 | ||
| Uzbekistan | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.9 | |||||||||||
| New Zealand | 7.2 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Georgia | 0.7 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 7.4 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 7.5 | 2.8 | 1.6 | ||
| हांगकांग | 2.1 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.6 | |
| Sri Lanka | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 | |
| Australia | 2.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| Azerbaijan | 3.6 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||
| Fiji | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 |
| Myanmar | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | |||
| Kyrgyzstan | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | ||
| Brunei Darussalam | 3.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | ||||
| Cambodia | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.0 | ||
| Indonesia | 2.1 | 5.0 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.4 | |
| Kiribati | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | ||||||
| Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.3 | ||||
| Micronesia (Federated States of) | 1.5 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 1.4 | ||||||||||||||
| Mongolia | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | |||||||
| Palau | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | ||||||||||
| Papua New Guinea | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.3 | |||||||||||||
| Samoa | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||
| Singapore | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.3 | |
| Solomon Islands | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Timor-Leste | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||||||||||
| Tonga | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | ||||||||||||
| Tuvalu | 0.2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vanuatu | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |||||||||||||||
| Viet Nam | 2.3 | 3.0 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 3.8 | |||
| Kazakhstan | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 2.8 | |||
| Tajikistan | 0.1 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.4 | ||||||||||
| Turkmenistan | 1.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Afghanistan | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 1.7 | |||||||||||
| Bangladesh | 3.1 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.7 | |||||||||||
| Bhutan | 4.3 | 10.2 | 8.0 | 7.2 | |||||||||||||||
| Nepal | 2.8 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 2.3 |