Benin - Export volume index

Export volume index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Export volume index (2000 = 100) in Benin was 260.14 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 358.90 in 2018 and 8.56 in 1982.

Definition: Export volume indexes are derived from UNCTAD's volume index series and are the ratio of the export 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 export volume indexes (lines 72) 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.

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Year Value
1980 28.09
1981 17.86
1982 8.56
1983 25.69
1984 65.34
1985 61.62
1986 37.33
1987 35.44
1988 19.12
1989 66.94
1990 68.59
1991 85.82
1992 123.91
1993 116.36
1994 111.43
1995 82.96
1996 119.08
1997 96.61
1998 91.10
1999 96.06
2000 100.00
2001 108.91
2002 134.21
2003 131.59
2004 125.11
2005 114.89
2006 131.88
2007 170.56
2008 165.78
2009 178.89
2010 154.26
2011 132.33
2012 147.53
2013 215.30
2014 285.01
2015 211.32
2016 215.37
2017 250.52
2018 358.90
2019 347.49
2020 260.14

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes