South Africa - Export volume index

Export volume index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Export volume index (2000 = 100) in South Africa was 140.08 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 147.42 in 2018 and 53.96 in 1982.

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 59.15
1981 54.99
1982 53.96
1983 54.22
1984 57.24
1985 62.60
1986 60.68
1987 57.55
1988 60.63
1989 65.94
1990 65.51
1991 65.25
1992 65.70
1993 70.86
1994 71.53
1995 75.53
1996 84.75
1997 91.58
1998 85.36
1999 89.07
2000 100.00
2001 101.86
2002 99.88
2003 98.31
2004 103.80
2005 108.84
2006 111.90
2007 122.59
2008 129.60
2009 101.59
2010 122.62
2011 129.49
2012 126.64
2013 132.74
2014 137.11
2015 142.86
2016 141.71
2017 144.25
2018 147.42
2019 143.23
2020 140.08

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes