Liberia - 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 Liberia was 186.51 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 186.51 in 2020 and 83.91 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 111.03
1981 102.31
1982 105.23
1983 103.33
1984 93.17
1985 100.00
1986 93.50
1987 83.91
2000 100.00
2001 100.91
2002 104.78
2003 110.10
2004 112.69
2005 114.43
2006 119.65
2007 119.59
2008 121.66
2009 112.18
2010 134.06
2011 151.63
2012 133.47
2013 151.32
2014 135.49
2015 130.49
2016 136.01
2017 140.25
2018 141.54
2019 160.19
2020 186.51

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes