United States - Import volume index

Import volume index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Import volume index (2000 = 100) in United States was 156.19 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 163.33 in 2018 and 23.35 in 1980.

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.

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Year Value
1980 23.35
1981 25.09
1982 23.92
1983 25.28
1984 32.79
1985 33.88
1986 35.75
1987 35.81
1988 37.67
1989 39.94
1990 38.35
1991 38.62
1992 40.92
1993 47.47
1994 52.46
1995 53.35
1996 57.14
1997 67.71
1998 74.26
1999 84.23
2000 100.00
2001 97.03
2002 101.29
2003 106.78
2004 118.43
2005 125.08
2006 131.99
2007 133.48
2008 128.47
2009 107.48
2010 123.32
2011 127.98
2012 131.59
2013 132.58
2014 138.82
2015 148.39
2016 149.15
2017 155.11
2018 163.33
2019 162.45
2020 156.19

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes