Jim Whitney Economics 311

Monday, February 27, 2012

 

Terms of trade indexes
(Terms of trade = 100*(Px/Pm))

U.N.'s top 10 terms of trade indexes

    Terms of trade, 2010
(2000=100)
Average annual growth,
GDP per capita
(2000-2010)
1

Rwanda

230 4.7%
2

Saudi Arabia

224 0.0%
3

Venezuela

216 1.6%
4

Angola

213 7.8%
5

Mongolia

213 5.1%
6

Turkmenistan

210 11.8%
7

Chile

204 2.7%
8

Equatorial Guinea

203 14.4%
9

Russia

202 5.2%
10

Sudan

199 3.8%
 

    Median growth rate

  4.9%

 

U.N.'s bottom 10 terms of trade indexes

    Terms of trade, 2010
(2000=100)
Average annual growth,
GDP per capita
(2000-2010)
1 Sierra Leone 71 5.9%
2 Comoros 71 -0.6%
3

Philippines

70 2.8%
4 Lesotho 69 2.4%
5

South Korea

68 3.8%
6

Japan

68 0.8%
7

Guinea-Bissau

64 -0.7%
8

Pakistan

62 2.8%
9

Bangladesh

57 4.4%
10

Togo

31 0.3%
     Median growth rate   2.6%

 

Source: World Bank
Terms of trade: World Bank. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/TT.PRI.MRCH.XD.WD
GDP per capita growth: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG/