South Africa - Import volume index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Import volume index (2000 = 100) in South Africa was 229.04 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 264.25 in 2018 and 45.77 in 1983.

Definition: Import volume indexes are derived from UNCTAD's volume index series and are the ratio of the import 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 import volume indexes (lines 73) 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.

See also:

Year Value
1980 58.19
1981 67.70
1982 55.62
1983 45.77
1984 56.39
1985 46.98
1986 46.98
1987 46.82
1988 58.22
1989 58.74
1990 53.88
1991 56.11
1992 57.30
1993 61.20
1994 71.52
1995 88.68
1996 94.99
1997 104.83
1998 99.47
1999 91.73
2000 100.00
2001 101.09
2002 106.33
2003 116.46
2004 132.76
2005 147.20
2006 180.20
2007 190.67
2008 204.96
2009 163.02
2010 185.37
2011 218.73
2012 237.08
2013 242.13
2014 246.46
2015 260.92
2016 249.34
2017 251.39
2018 264.25
2019 262.88
2020 229.04

Base Period: 2000

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes