St. Lucia - 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 St. Lucia was 111.94 as of 2020. Over the past 20 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 122.00 in 2009 and 92.88 in 2018.

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
2000 100.00
2001 117.70
2002 112.83
2003 100.65
2004 110.32
2005 116.27
2006 119.95
2007 115.44
2008 101.40
2009 122.00
2010 106.24
2011 101.59
2012 100.85
2013 99.09
2014 101.67
2015 112.86
2016 116.96
2017 104.43
2018 92.88
2019 95.71
2020 111.94

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes