Ores and metals comprise the 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zimbabwe | 15.9 | 8.7 | 16.8 | 38.1 | 40.6 | 40.3 | 33.0 | 30.0 | 31.1 | 31.2 | 31.2 | 30.1 | 35.2 | 44.8 | 46.0 | 40.2 | 43.0 | 33.8 | |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 0.6 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 4.7 | 5.4 | |
| Mauritius | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 2.3 |
| Djibouti | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Libya | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |||||||||||||
| Tunisia | 19.0 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.4 | |
| Burundi | 0.7 | 1.3 | 4.6 | 5.7 | 7.5 | 5.3 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 5.7 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 5.9 | 10.2 | 4.0 | ||||
| Comoros | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 6.5 | |||||
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | 77.8 | 70.7 | 69.3 | 56.5 | 45.2 | 67.1 | 74.1 | 71.0 | 83.1 | 76.3 | |||||||||
| Eritrea | 8.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |||
| Kenya | 2.9 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 5.4 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 6.4 | 6.8 | 5.3 | |||||
| Madagascar | 5.0 | 7.7 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 8.4 | 9.6 | 19.1 | 29.9 | 35.8 | 34.0 | 24.9 | 23.3 | 25.0 | 27.1 | 17.5 | 31.4 | 38.7 | 39.3 | |
| Malawi | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 9.8 | 8.8 | 11.0 | 11.4 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.2 | |
| Rwanda | 35.1 | 35.9 | 45.2 | 39.9 | 47.7 | 45.3 | 29.2 | 22.4 | 29.4 | 30.3 | 14.9 | 8.2 | 14.5 | 20.9 | |||||
| Seychelles | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 11.7 | |||
| Somalia | 0.1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sudan | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Eswatini | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 5.8 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |||
| Uganda | 4.5 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.5 | |||
| Zambia | 99.1 | 64.4 | 67.4 | 82.3 | 78.6 | 69.7 | 70.6 | 73.0 | 74.8 | 73.2 | 79.5 | 77.5 | 74.6 | 78.8 | 79.3 | 75.6 | 71.4 |