Liberia vs Malawi: Export product concentration index
Export product concentration index over time
- Liberia
- Malawi
How they compare
Liberia currently reports 0.4748 against 0.4489 in Malawi, a difference of 0.0259.
That makes Liberia's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.
The two have swapped places 8 times across 17 shared years of data; in 1995 it was Liberia ahead.
Liberia ranks 22nd and Malawi ranks 25th of 53 countries.
Across the 3 decades both report, Liberia averaged higher in 2 and Malawi in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Liberia | Malawi | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.6592 | 0.6232 | 0.036 | Liberia |
| 2000s | 0.67 | 0.5805 | 0.0896 | Liberia |
| 2010s | 0.4404 | 0.4841 | 0.0436 | Malawi |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher export product concentration index, Liberia or Malawi?
- Liberia, at 0.4748 against 0.4489 in Malawi as of 2011.
- What is the difference in export product concentration index between Liberia and Malawi?
- 0.0259, with Liberia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Liberia and Malawi?
- 17 years are reported by both, from 1995 to 2011.
- How do Liberia and Malawi rank globally for export product concentration index?
- Liberia ranks 22nd and Malawi ranks 25th 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.