GENERAL NOTES
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International trade
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Table
Volume growth rates of merchandise exports and imports,
quarterly presents quarterly volume growth rates by
selected individual country, geographical region and economic
grouping, expressed as percentage change over previous quarter
and percentage change over the same quarter of previous year.
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Table Values and shares of merchandise
exports and imports, annual shows the value of total
merchandise exports and imports by individual country,
geographical region, economic grouping and trade group,
expressed in millions of dollars and as a percentage of the
world total.
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Table Value growth rates of merchandise
exports and imports, annual presents annual average
growth rates of total merchandise exports and imports for
individual countries, geographical regions and economic
groupings.
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Table
Merchandise trade balance, annual shows trade balance, the difference between exports f.o.b. and imports c.i.f. (or imports f.o.b. when applicable) expressed in millions of dollars and as a percentage of imports.
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Table
Values and growth of exports and imports of total services,
quarterly presents the latest quarterly statistics
for total services exports and imports, in millions of dollars,
for individual countries, for which the data are available.
Quarterly figures for commercial services, which exclude
government services, are included as a memo item. Also shown are
the year-on-year percentage changes. The data presented are the
result of the common work of World Trade Organization (WTO) and
UNCTAD, and are published simultaneously by both organizations
(WTO
statistics database).
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Values and shares of exports and imports of services, annual
presents total trade in services by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars, as percentages of the world total and as percentages of a country's or a group's total trade in both merchandise and services.
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Exports and imports of merchandise and services, annual
is a compilation of merchandise trade statistics, reported by countries in accordance with the recommendations of the UN International Merchandise Trade Statistics: Concepts and Definitions, and statistics of trade in services as reported in the Balance of Payments.
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Table
Value, volume and unit value indices of merchandise exports and
imports, annual provides information on trade indices
of value, volume and unit value which are calculated at the
level of individual countries, geographical regions, and
economic groupings.
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Table
Intra-trade of
regional and trade groups by product, annual
shows the value of total exports and imports of intra-trade of
regional and trade groups broken down by products expressed in
millions of dollars and in percentage by destination.
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Table
Merchandise trade matrix, exports and imports, annual
presents merchandise trade by trading partner and product based on SITC, Rev.3 commodity classification (the most detailed level is three digit), expressed in thousands of dollars. In addition, data are also summarized by geographical region and economic grouping, for both reporting country and its trading partner, and by product grouping.
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Trade in services by category, annual
presents trade in services by service category for individual countries, expressed in millions of dollars and as percentages of a country's total trade in services. The commercial services, which exclude government services and follow the GATS definition, are included as well.
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Table
Terms of trade indices and purchasing
power indices of exports, annual, provides
information on terms of trade and purchasing power indices which
are calculated at the level of individual countries,
geographical regions, and economic groupings.
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Table
Merchandise trade indices, annual
provides information on various trade indices (value, volume, terms of trade, unit value, and purchasing power indices)
which are calculated at the level of individual countries, geographical regions, and economic groupings.
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Table
Concentration and diversification indices of merchandise exports and imports by country, annual
provides information on number of exported/imported products, concentration and diversification indices by country. The concentration index
shows how exports and imports of individual countries or group of countries are concentrated on several products or otherwise distributed in
a more homogeneous manner among a series of products. The diversification index signals whether the structure of exports or imports by product
of a given country or group of countries differ from the structure of product of the world.
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Table
Concentration and structural change indices of exports and imports by product, annual
provides information on concentration and structural change indices by product. The concentration index indicates whether a product is concentrated
in a few countries or homogeneously distributed among several countries. The structural change index shows whether the market share for a given
product among exporting countries has change significantly compared to reference year.
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Table Merchandise trade complementarity,
annual, presents merchandise trade complementarity
index which assesses the suitability of preferential trade
agreement between two economies given the structure of one
potential partners’ exports match the imports of the other
potential partner. Changes over time may indicate whether the
trade profiles are becoming more or less compatible.
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Table
Merchandise
trade specialization indices, annual,
presents merchandise trade
specialization indices which are used to measure the degree of
specialization in the production/consumption of goods through
trade. They are calculated for each product group.
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Table
Merchandise trade correlation indices, annual, presents
merchandise trade correlation indices which are used to measure
similarity of trade specialization index between economies. High
similarity then can be considered that those economies compete
in other in both exports and imports.
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Table Merchandise and services
trade balance indicators, annual, shows indicators of trade
balances as the following: - Normalized trade balance, - Trade
balance as percentage of imports and, - Trade balance as
percentage of nominal gross domestic product (GDP). The
indicators are calculated for merchandise trade, trade in
services and total trade in merchandise and services.
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Table Merchandise and services
trade openness, annual, shows exports, imports and
average of exports and imports as percentage of nominal gross
domestic product (GDP). The indicators are calculated for
merchandise trade, trade in services and total trade in
merchandise and services.
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Most favoured nation rate (MFN rate) and effectively applied rate, annual
presents most favoured nation (MFN) and effectively applied import tariff rates for major categories of non-agricultural and non-fuel products by individual country (as market economies) and economic grouping (as origins), expressed in various aggregation measures: simple average, weighted average, minimum and maximum rate, etc.
Economic trends
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Nominal and real GDP, total and per capita, annual
presents total and per capita, nominal and real, gross domestic product (GDP) by expenditure approach, by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping. Total GDP figures are expressed in millions of dollars, while GDP per capita is expressed in dollars.
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Real GDP growth rates, total and per capita, annual
contains annual average growth rates of real gross domestic product (GDP), total and per capita, by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping.
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GDP by type of expenditure and Value Added by kind of economic activity, annual
presents gross domestic product (GDP) by type of expenditure and presents value added (VA) by kind of economic activity, expressed in millions of dollars. The table also presents percentage distribution of GDP by expenditure and percentage distribution of VA by economic activity.
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Table
Nominal GNI, total and per capita, annual presents
total and per capita, nominal gross national income by
individual country, geographical region and economic grouping.
GNI figures are expressed in millions of dollars, while GNI per
capita is expressed in dollars.
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Balance of payments, current account net, annual
provides information on the current account net by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars and as percentages of GDP
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Exchange rates crossrates, annual
shows exchange rates for currencies used in over 190 world economies presented in a crossrates layout where countries are presented in both rows and columns.
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Nominal effective exchange rate indices, annual, shows
the nominal effective exchange
rate indices (NEER) by individual country,
geographical region and economic grouping.
The term "effective" means that
exchange rate changes are not measured against one particular
currency, but instead use an average index of a whole basket of
currencies, each weighted according to the issuing countries'
respective importance as a trade partner.
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Real effective
exchange rate indices (CPI based), annual, shows
the real effective exchange rate indices (REER)
Consumer Price Index based by individual country,
geographical region and economic grouping.
Real effective exchange rates take account of price level differences between trading
partners.
Foreign direct investment
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Inward and outward foreign direct investment flows, annual
contains information on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and outflows by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars. Additional calculations present: FDI world shares, FDI values per capita, and FDI percentage ratios with respect to GDP, gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), and total exports and imports of merchandise and services.
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Inward and outward foreign direct investment stock, annual
contains information on foreign direct investment (FDI) inward and outward stock by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars, as FDI world shares, as FDI values per capita, and as FDI percentage ratios with respect to GDP.
External financial resources
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Table
Inward and outward foreign direct investment flows, annual
contains information on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and outflows by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars. Additional calculations present: FDI world shares, FDI values per capita, and FDI percentage ratios with respect to GDP, gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), and total exports and imports of merchandise and services.
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Migrants' remittances, annual
presents two different series on remittances expressed in millions of dollars: (1) Total remittances, which cover workers' remittances, compensation of employees and migrants' transfers; and (2) Workers' remittances plus compensation of employees. It also shows remittances as percentage of exports and imports of goods and services, and as percentage of GDP. Aggregated figures for country groups are calculated only for the series Total remittances.
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Official financial flows, annual
gives information on official financial flows by type and sources. It is further broken down by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping (as recipients); and expressed in millions of dollars, as percentage of total flows and as percentage of region.
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External long-term debt of developing economies by lending source, annual
presents information on the external long-term indebtedness of developing economies (as debtors), expressed in millions of dollars, expressed as percentage of total long-term debt, as percentage of debt source and as percentage of region. The table also provides breakdown of public and publicly guaranteed debt by source of lending (as creditors).
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International reserves including gold, annual
contains time series on international reserves (including gold), by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars. It further presents the number of months of merchandise imports that these reserves could finance at current imports level, as well as annual changes in total reserves.
Population
and labour force
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Total population, annual
provides estimates from 1950 to current year and forecasts until 2050 on population: total population and urban population, expressed in thousands and as a percentage of total population, respectively.
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Total labour force and agriculture labour force, annual
provides estimates and forecasts on labour force data: (1) Total labour force and female labour force, expressed in thousands and as a percentage of total labour force, respectively, (2) Total agriculture labour force and female labour force, expressed in thousands and as a percentage of total agriculture labour force, respectively.
Commodities
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Free market commodity prices,
monthly and annual
present average free-market prices for
selected commodities exported by developing economies. The
prices are calculated from daily quotations except in the case of wheat, cotton, tea, vegetable oilseeds and oils and cattle hides, which are calculated from weekly quotations.
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Free market commodity price indices,
monthly and annual
present free-market price indices, calculated from commodity
prices table, for selected commodities exported by developing economies.
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Instability indices and trends of free-market commodity prices for selected periods, annual
presents instability indices and trends of free-market prices for selected primary commodities that are of particular interest to developing economies for three ten-year periods and two five-year periods.
Information economy
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ICT producing sector core indicators, annual
contains statistics on two core indicators of the ICT producing sector: the proportion (%) of total business sector workforce involved in the ICT sector and value added in the ICT sector as a percentage of total business sector value added.
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Share of ICT goods in international trade, annual
contains two of the Core Indicators on the Information Economy defined by the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development, namely the share of ICT goods imports as a percentage of total imports and the share of ICT goods exports as a percentage of total exports, for every country for which this information is available in the UN COMTRADE database. For information on the Partnership, please consult:
http://measuring-ict.unctad.org.
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Bilateral
trade flows by ICT goods categories, annual, contains
bilateral flows of ICT goods aggregated at the category level.
The five categories are defined according to the OECD’s Guide
on Measuring the Information Society 2011 as follows:
computers and peripheral equipment, communication equipment,
consumer electronic equipment, electronic components,
miscellaneous.
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Core Indicators on ICT Use in Business by
Location Type, annual, contains statistics on 12 core
indicators on the use of ICT in business differentiated by urban
and rural location.
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Core indicators on ICT use in business by Industrial
Classification of economic activity, annual, contains
statistics on 12 core indicators on the use of ICT in business
by Industrial Classification of economic activity.
Creative economy
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Values and shares of creative goods exports and imports, annual
presents exports and imports of creative goods by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars and broken down by individual trading partner or trading group. Furthermore, data are presented also as percentage of world (both as economy and trading partner), total products, and region.
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Growth rates of creative goods exports and imports, annual
presents annual average growth of creative goods exports and imports for individual countries, geographical regions and economic groupings.
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Concentration index of creative goods exports and imports, annual
provides information on concentration indices of exports and imports of creative goods.
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Trade in creative services, annual
presents exports and imports of creative services by category of service, for individual economies, expressed in millions of dollars and as percentages of a country's total services trade.
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Growth rates of creative services exports and imports, annual
presents annual average growth rates of creative services exports and imports for individual countries and selected geographical regions.
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Trade in related services: Computer and information, annual
presents exports and imports of computer and information services, for individual countries, expressed in millions of dollars and as percentages of a country's total services trade, in the context of trade in services related to creative economy.
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Trade in related services: Royalties and license fees, annual
presents exports and imports of royalties and license fees, for individual countries, expressed in millions of dollars and as percentages of a country's total services trade, in the context of trade in services related to creative economy.
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Growth rates of creative industries related goods exports and imports, annual
presents annual average growth rates of exports and imports of goods related to creative industries for individual countries, geographical regions and economic groupings.
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Concentration index of creative industries related goods exports and imports, annual
provides information on concentration indices of exports and imports of goods related to creative industries.
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Values and shares of creative industries related goods exports and imports, annual
presents exports and imports of goods related to creative industries by individual country, geographical region and economic grouping, expressed in millions of dollars and broken down by individual trading partner or trading group. Furthermore, data are presented also as percentage of world (both as economy and trading partner), total products, and region.
Maritime
transport
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Merchant fleet by flag of registration and by type of ship, annual
shows data on the world merchant fleet by flag of registration and by type of ship, highlighting the group of major open-registry countries. Data are presented in thousands of dead-weight tons (DWT), as world shares, and as percentages of a ship-type in an economy's fleet.
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Liner shipping connectivity index, annual
presents the liner shipping connectivity index (LSCI), which indicates a country's integration level into global liner shipping networks. The index base year is 2004, and the base value is on a country showing a maximum figure for 2004.
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Container port throughput, annual
presents the total number of containers handled by a port, per country, expressed in Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs). This may include loading, unloading, repositioning and transshipment containers as well as Forty-foot Equivalent Units (FEUs) being counted as two TEUs.
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World seaborne
trade by types of cargo and country groups, annual
shows data on the world seaborne
trade by type of cargo and by group of countries. Data are
presented in millions of tons.
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