Cameroon vs Equatorial Guinea: Import product diversification index
Import product diversification index over time
- Cameroon
- Equatorial Guinea
How they compare
Equatorial Guinea currently reports 0.4785 against 0.475 in Cameroon, a difference of 0.0035.
Across all 17 years both countries report, Equatorial Guinea has been ahead every year.
Cameroon ranks 35th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 33rd of 53 countries.
Equatorial Guinea has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cameroon | Equatorial Guinea | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.4884 | 0.595 | 0.1065 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2000s | 0.4923 | 0.5823 | 0.09 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 2010s | 0.4811 | 0.501 | 0.0199 | Equatorial Guinea |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher import product diversification index, Cameroon or Equatorial Guinea?
- Equatorial Guinea, at 0.4785 against 0.475 in Cameroon as of 2011.
- What is the difference in import product diversification index between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea?
- 0.0035, with Equatorial Guinea ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea?
- 17 years are reported by both, from 1995 to 2011.
- How do Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea rank globally for import product diversification index?
- Cameroon ranks 35th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 33rd 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 diversification index. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The diversification index signals whether the structure of imports by product of a given country or group of countries differ from the structure of product of the world. Diversification index that ranges from 0 to 1 reveals the extent of the differences between the structure of trade of the country or country group and the world average. The index value closer to 1 indicates a bigger difference from the world average. It is constructed as the inverse of a Herfindahl index, using disaggregated exports at 4 digits (following the STIC3). This index is a modified Finger-Kreinin measure of similarity in trade. For more information, please consult the article of Finger, J. M. and M. E. Kreinin (1979), “A measure of ‘export similarity’ and its possible uses” in the Economic Journal , 89: 905-12.