Statizoid

Democratic Republic of Congo vs Rwanda: Export product concentration index

Democratic Republic of Congo
0.4301
in 2011
Rwanda
0.422
in 2011
Democratic Republic of Congo rank
26th
Rwanda rank
27th

Export product concentration index over time

  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Rwanda
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How they compare

Democratic Republic of Congo currently reports 0.4301 against 0.422 in Rwanda, a difference of 0.0081.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 17 shared years of data; in 1995 it was Rwanda ahead.

Democratic Republic of Congo ranks 26th and Rwanda ranks 27th of 53 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Export product concentration index
Source
UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
55 places, 935 data points, 1995–2011
Last refreshed

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.