Terms of Trade Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: terms-of-trade-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Terms of Trade Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	209	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	209	0
Terms of trade index (2015 = 100)terms_of_tradeHeadline	The headline figure: Terms of trade index (2015 = 100).	Number · up to 4 decimals	38.197Niue1,448.226North Koreamiddle 103.227	209	0
Export unit value index (2015 = 100)export_unit_valueMeasure	UNCTAD's index of the average price of the country's merchandise exports in US dollars, with the country's own 2015 set at 100; the terms of trade is this index divided by the import one.	Number · up to 4 decimals	43.3550Niue831.5155North Koreamiddle 137.6279	209	0
Import unit value index (2015 = 100)import_unit_valueMeasure	UNCTAD's index of the average price of the country's merchandise imports in US dollars, with the country's own 2015 set at 100.	Number · up to 4 decimals	57.416North Korea242.217Ukrainemiddle 127.327	209	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 21 years.

Not in this dataset · 15 places this site covers

UNCTAD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

Channel IslandsIsle of ManKosovoLiechtensteinMonacoNorthern CyprusPuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandSouth SudanTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

   unctadstat.unctad.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Terms of Trade Index 2025

   US_TermsOfTrade

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   21 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as terms-of-trade-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/terms-of-trade

Read from UNCTAD's own US.TermsOfTrade bulk file on UNCTADstat, at the four decimals of the file rather than the one decimal UNCTAD's data viewer displays. The export and import price indices the ratio is built from are stored beside it; UNCTAD's regional and economic groupings, and territories without a country profile, are left out.

• Charted

  Terms of Trade Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Economy & Innovation
  • Mobility & Trade

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