Malawi - 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 Malawi was 97.28 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 200.00 in 1982 and 79.10 in 2008.

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 163.33
1981 195.24
1982 200.00
1983 185.96
1984 191.07
1985 167.35
1986 144.83
1987 137.31
1988 129.33
1989 138.16
1990 148.24
1991 157.47
1992 127.78
1993 114.12
1994 89.32
1995 105.66
1996 112.38
1997 117.14
1998 103.09
1999 106.12
2000 100.00
2001 101.30
2002 92.82
2003 87.97
2004 84.34
2005 83.24
2006 86.59
2007 86.30
2008 79.10
2009 97.01
2010 97.75
2011 100.25
2012 95.08
2013 92.98
2014 96.75
2015 107.25
2016 113.14
2017 110.26
2018 104.35
2019 100.98
2020 97.28

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes