Saudi Arabia - 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 Saudi Arabia was 86.50 as of 2020. Over the past 20 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 149.51 in 2005 and 82.88 in 2016.

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 90.05
2002 90.37
2003 100.90
2004 119.00
2005 149.51
2006 133.87
2007 133.15
2008 148.20
2009 104.29
2010 120.79
2011 148.27
2012 145.72
2013 143.77
2014 138.56
2015 92.35
2016 82.88
2017 104.86
2018 116.39
2019 120.06
2020 86.50

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes