Costa Rica - 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 Costa Rica was 101.26 as of 2020. Over the past 40 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 112.50 in 1986 and 73.45 in 1981.

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 81.37
1981 73.45
1982 74.07
1983 73.58
1984 82.00
1985 84.00
1986 112.50
1987 92.55
1988 91.84
1989 85.44
1990 75.00
1991 79.63
1992 84.11
1993 87.85
1994 98.02
1995 104.59
1996 99.08
1997 105.66
1998 108.91
1999 107.14
2000 100.00
2001 100.00
2002 99.98
2003 99.96
2004 99.93
2005 99.89
2006 99.85
2007 99.82
2008 99.77
2009 99.85
2010 99.85
2011 99.82
2012 99.82
2013 99.81
2014 99.83
2015 99.90
2016 99.93
2017 99.91
2018 99.87
2019 100.50
2020 101.26

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Trade indexes