India - Import volume index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Import volume index (2000 = 100) in India was 508.29 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 600.72 in 2018 and 21.53 in 1981.

Definition: Import volume indexes are derived from UNCTAD's volume index series and are the ratio of the import value indexes to the corresponding unit value indexes. 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. For economies for which UNCTAD does not publish data, the import volume indexes (lines 73) in the IMF's International Financial Statistics are used.

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 21.53
1981 21.53
1982 22.08
1983 22.01
1984 29.06
1985 25.55
1986 25.58
1987 32.69
1988 30.14
1989 30.68
1990 32.46
1991 31.75
1992 38.46
1993 44.68
1994 54.27
1995 67.36
1996 70.81
1997 78.07
1998 91.67
1999 94.98
2000 100.00
2001 101.46
2002 105.85
2003 130.42
2004 152.63
2005 195.83
2006 218.15
2007 248.20
2008 313.24
2009 324.66
2010 398.28
2011 436.87
2012 461.99
2013 460.72
2014 476.68
2015 532.75
2016 522.08
2017 583.78
2018 600.72
2019 595.76
2020 508.29

Base Period: 2000

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes