Lesotho - Export volume index

Export volume index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Export volume index (2000 = 100) in Lesotho was 347.47 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 467.99 in 2018 and 13.36 in 1983.

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 20.12
1981 19.70
1982 16.65
1983 13.36
1984 14.76
1985 16.12
1986 17.03
1987 36.48
1988 30.71
1989 33.13
1990 27.48
1991 27.76
1992 40.38
1993 50.95
1994 55.72
1995 58.70
1996 73.88
1997 77.50
1998 83.87
1999 74.68
2000 100.00
2001 128.56
2002 164.43
2003 219.64
2004 326.79
2005 301.31
2006 320.78
2007 349.86
2008 389.51
2009 323.02
2010 377.56
2011 450.99
2012 365.41
2013 325.59
2014 314.42
2015 366.89
2016 348.42
2017 408.64
2018 467.99
2019 413.64
2020 347.47

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes