São Tomé and Principe - 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 São Tomé and Principe was 111.40 as of 2020. Over the past 34 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 270.67 in 1988 and 93.20 in 1992.

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
1986 220.24
1987 200.00
1988 270.67
1989 107.45
1990 101.02
1991 103.03
1992 93.20
1993 104.90
1994 115.89
1995 100.00
1996 124.35
1997 136.11
1998 121.88
1999 113.73
2000 100.00
2001 108.40
2002 160.42
2003 148.02
2004 129.88
2005 115.51
2006 109.99
2007 115.60
2008 128.17
2009 151.77
2010 154.40
2011 139.00
2012 117.61
2013 119.83
2014 144.01
2015 157.50
2016 149.34
2017 110.69
2018 111.05
2019 113.36
2020 111.40

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes