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Comoros vs Equatorial Guinea: Import product concentration index

Comoros
0.1114
in 2011
Equatorial Guinea
0.1112
in 2011
Comoros rank
34th
Equatorial Guinea rank
35th

Import product concentration index over time

  • Comoros
  • Equatorial Guinea
0.10.20.3199520032011

How they compare

Comoros currently reports 0.1114 against 0.1112 in Equatorial Guinea, a difference of 0.0002.

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

Comoros ranks 34th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 35th of 53 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Import 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 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.