Benin vs Lesotho: Export product concentration index
Export product concentration index over time
- Benin
- Lesotho
How they compare
Lesotho currently reports 0.3263 against 0.2757 in Benin, a difference of 0.0506.
That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.2 times Benin's.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 17 shared years of data; in 1995 it was Benin ahead.
Benin ranks 36th and Lesotho ranks 35th of 53 countries.
Across the 3 decades both report, Benin averaged higher in 2 and Lesotho in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Benin | Lesotho | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.6596 | 0.2728 | 0.3868 | Benin |
| 2000s | 0.435 | 0.3926 | 0.0425 | Benin |
| 2010s | 0.2698 | 0.3282 | 0.0584 | Lesotho |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher export product concentration index, Benin or Lesotho?
- Lesotho, at 0.3263 against 0.2757 in Benin as of 2011.
- What is the difference in export product concentration index between Benin and Lesotho?
- 0.0506, with Lesotho ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Lesotho?
- 17 years are reported by both, from 1995 to 2011.
- How do Benin and Lesotho rank globally for export product concentration index?
- Benin ranks 36th and Lesotho ranks 35th of 53 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/), published as Export product concentration index. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
This indicator reflects the Herfindahl-Hirschmann index measure of the degree of export concentration within a country. The sectoral Hirschmann index is defined as the square root of the sum of the squared shares of exports of each industry in total exports for the region under study. Takes a value between 0 and 1, with 1 indicating that only a single product is exported. Higher values indicate that exports are concentrated in fewer sectors. On the contrary, values closer to 0 reflect a more equal distribution of market shares among exporters. Note that this type of concentration indicator tends to be quite vulnerable to cyclical fluctuations in relative-prices, in a way that commodity price rises make commodity exporters look more concentrated.