Cameroon vs Guinea: Import product concentration index
Import product concentration index over time
- Cameroon
- Guinea
How they compare
Guinea currently reports 0.1826 against 0.1786 in Cameroon, a difference of 0.004.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 17 shared years of data; in 1995 it was Guinea ahead.
Cameroon ranks 13th and Guinea ranks 12th of 53 countries.
Across the 3 decades both report, Cameroon averaged higher in 2 and Guinea in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cameroon | Guinea | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.1025 | 0.1132 | 0.0107 | Guinea |
| 2000s | 0.1777 | 0.1536 | 0.0241 | Cameroon |
| 2010s | 0.1947 | 0.1772 | 0.0175 | Cameroon |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher import product concentration index, Cameroon or Guinea?
- Guinea, at 0.1826 against 0.1786 in Cameroon as of 2011.
- What is the difference in import product concentration index between Cameroon and Guinea?
- 0.004, with Guinea ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Guinea?
- 17 years are reported by both, from 1995 to 2011.
- How do Cameroon and Guinea rank globally for import product concentration index?
- Cameroon ranks 13th and Guinea ranks 12th 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 Import 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 import 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 imports are concentrated in fewer sectors. On the contrary, values closer to 0 reflect a more equal distribution of market shares among importers. 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 importers look more concentrated.