Zambia - 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 Zambia was 172.40 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 312.31 in 1988 and 87.13 in 1999.

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
1980 222.47
1981 163.64
1982 120.18
1983 154.17
1984 162.35
1985 186.15
1986 204.00
1987 255.56
1988 312.31
1989 166.36
1990 206.86
1991 152.67
1992 126.49
1993 123.24
1994 151.28
1995 189.66
1996 152.25
1997 141.74
1998 112.87
1999 87.13
2000 100.00
2001 94.58
2002 91.95
2003 95.76
2004 112.76
2005 127.28
2006 200.02
2007 198.39
2008 179.19
2009 160.64
2010 199.45
2011 206.16
2012 190.75
2013 182.88
2014 176.73
2015 169.76
2016 164.59
2017 184.20
2018 175.21
2019 169.17
2020 172.40

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes