Botswana - 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 Botswana was 85.38 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 102.25 in 1989 and 62.89 in 1983.

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
1980 83.51
1981 74.26
1982 67.74
1983 62.89
1984 68.60
1985 82.81
1986 82.67
1987 89.13
1988 101.12
1989 102.25
1990 98.13
1991 91.82
1992 84.17
1993 85.47
1994 89.57
1995 89.34
1996 93.75
1997 98.18
1998 100.00
1999 100.00
2000 100.00
2001 99.60
2002 97.87
2003 95.02
2004 94.68
2005 90.39
2006 94.24
2007 97.82
2008 82.68
2009 84.28
2010 86.94
2011 83.05
2012 82.73
2013 82.06
2014 84.85
2015 90.65
2016 92.02
2017 87.69
2018 84.65
2019 85.86
2020 85.38

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes