Japan - 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 Japan was 71.00 as of 2020. Over the past 20 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 100.99 in 2002 and 58.44 in 2014.

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 100.56
2002 100.99
2003 97.68
2004 92.41
2005 83.23
2006 75.42
2007 71.66
2008 62.01
2009 74.37
2010 67.73
2011 61.60
2012 60.46
2013 59.02
2014 58.44
2015 66.67
2016 72.33
2017 68.68
2018 64.73
2019 65.75
2020 71.00

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes