Lesotho - 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 Lesotho was 78.64 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 131.00 in 1980 and 63.74 in 1987.

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 131.00
1981 116.00
1982 106.52
1983 102.02
1984 102.44
1985 100.00
1986 93.15
1987 63.74
1988 101.06
1989 100.00
1990 100.00
1991 88.71
1992 100.82
1993 100.00
1994 100.00
1995 100.00
1996 100.00
1997 100.00
1998 100.00
1999 99.06
2000 100.00
2001 100.34
2002 101.41
2003 94.68
2004 88.23
2005 86.74
2006 84.31
2007 81.78
2008 75.00
2009 81.94
2010 77.60
2011 74.21
2012 77.49
2013 76.64
2014 78.51
2015 85.40
2016 88.22
2017 82.60
2018 78.75
2019 78.61
2020 78.64

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes