United Arab Emirates - Import volume index

Import volume index (2000 = 100)

The latest value for Import volume index (2000 = 100) in United Arab Emirates was 426.37 as of 2020. Over the past 20 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 552.26 in 2017 and 100.00 in 2000.

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
2000 100.00
2001 108.24
2002 124.67
2003 147.21
2004 190.93
2005 214.69
2006 235.92
2007 292.35
2008 404.49
2009 312.02
2010 326.84
2011 406.01
2012 456.53
2013 503.79
2014 523.34
2015 535.30
2016 550.51
2017 552.26
2018 505.33
2019 520.85
2020 426.37

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes