Trade in services, 2022 Q2

The new trade in services quarterly bulletin is now available.

World services trade continued to recover from the effects of the COVID19 pandemic, registering a 17% year-on-year (YoY) increase in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022.

In seasonally adjusted (SA) terms, in Q2 2022, world services exports grew by 3.7% from the previous quarter.

Trade and Biodiversity (TraBio) Statistical Tool Launch

For the first time, a comprehensive repository of data on trade flows of 1 814 biodiversity-based products will be available for users worldwide.

The TraBio statistical tool is comprised of a dataset of trade statistics on biodiversity-based products and a web page which contains interactive maps and charts to help the user visualize the underlying data more intuitively.

Commodity Price Index, July 2022

The new UCPI monthly bulletin is now available.

The average price of commodities, as measured by the UNCTAD Commodity Price Index (UCPI), decreased by 0.4 per cent from June to July 2022.

In July 2022, the index was 48.5 per cent higher than 12 months earlier.

Nowcasts

UNCTAD’s nowcasts are data and model-based predictions of global trade and GDP period over period growth. The latest data available and data revisions are fed into models on a weekly basis to update and revise the nowcasts and provide insight on current economic and trade conditions well before final figures are published with several months’ delay.

Ocean trade

Oceans and seas cover over two-thirds of the earth's surface and can play a major role in contributing to achieving sustainable development, economic growth, and livelihoods.The identification of sustainable ocean economy sectors and their respective Harmonized System codes was conducted in the UNCTAD report ‘Towards a harmonized international trade classification for the development of sustainable ocean-based economies’.

We are pleased to announced that a report on Ocean trade is now available in our Data Center.

New video tutorials

We are pleased to announced that new UNCTADstat video tutorials have been released.

Want to learn how to extract data from our Data Center? How to create custom groups or save private reports?

Check out these tutorials to see how to better use our Data Center. These tutorials will help you to get familiar with UNCTADstat Data center usage, basic options as well as advanced features.