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South Africa: Export unit value index

141.80index (2015=100) · 2025+41.8% since 2015

Export unit value indices come from UNCTAD's trade database. Unit value indices 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, interna¬tional and national sources, and UNCTAD secretariat estimates. This indicator is an index series where 2015=100. Annual figures for South Africa from 1980 to 2025.

19862025

Every year

YearValue (index (2015=100))Note
2025141.8
2024132.5
2023124.2
2022141.1
2021144.4
2020112.3
2019112.2
2018113.4
2017109.1
201695.3
2015100
2014119.7
2013127.8
2012138.7
2011148.2
2010131.4
2009107.1
2008109.9
2007100.4
200691.7
200583.7
200478.4
200365.5
200252.4
200150.7
200052.9
199952.9
199854.5
199759.8
199660.8
199565.1
199462.4
199360.3
199263
199163
199063.5
198959.3
198863.5
198765.1
198653.4
198546
198453.4
198360.3
198257.7
198166.7
198076.2

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by UN Conference on Trade and Development. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Export unit value index. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-export-unit-value-index (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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