Barbados - Net barter terms of trade index

Net barter terms of trade index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Net barter terms of trade index (2000 = 100) in Barbados was 112.20 as of 2020. Over the past 20 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 120.03 in 2009 and 95.98 in 2002.

Definition: Net barter terms of trade index is calculated as the percentage ratio of the export unit value indexes to the import unit value indexes, measured relative to the base year 2000. Unit value indexes are based on data reported by countries that demonstrate consistency under UNCTAD quality controls, supplemented by UNCTAD's estimates using the previous year’s trade values at the Standard International Trade Classification three-digit level as weights. To improve data coverage, especially for the latest periods, UNCTAD constructs a set of average prices indexes at the three-digit product classification of the Standard International Trade Classification revision 3 using UNCTAD’s Commodity Price Statistics, interna­tional and national sources, and UNCTAD secretariat estimates and calculates unit value indexes at the country level using the current year's trade values as weights.

Source: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Handbook of Statistics and data files, and International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics.

See also:

Year Value
2000 100.00
2001 97.58
2002 95.98
2003 100.29
2004 108.12
2005 114.85
2006 117.78
2007 116.39
2008 117.02
2009 120.03
2010 109.69
2011 101.00
2012 109.25
2013 106.50
2014 106.13
2015 112.07
2016 112.96
2017 109.42
2018 107.54
2019 108.11
2020 112.20

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes