Equatorial Guinea vs Mali: Export product concentration index

Equatorial Guinea
0.7054
in 2011
Mali
0.6019
in 2011
Equatorial Guinea rank
11th
Mali rank
13th

Export product concentration index over time

  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Mali
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How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 0.7054 against 0.6019 in Mali, a difference of 0.1035.

That makes Equatorial Guinea's figure about 1.2 times Mali's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 17 shared years of data; in 1995 it was Mali ahead.

Equatorial Guinea ranks 11th and Mali ranks 13th 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.