Kenya vs Morocco: Export product concentration index

Kenya
0.1907
in 2011
Morocco
0.1691
in 2011
Kenya rank
49th
Morocco rank
50th

Export product concentration index over time

  • Kenya
  • Morocco
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How they compare

Kenya currently reports 0.1907 against 0.1691 in Morocco, a difference of 0.0216.

That makes Kenya's figure about 1.1 times Morocco's.

Across all 17 years both countries report, Kenya has been ahead every year.

Kenya ranks 49th and Morocco ranks 50th 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.