Eritrea vs Seychelles: Import product diversification index
Import product diversification index over time
- Eritrea
- Seychelles
How they compare
Seychelles currently reports 0.5688 against 0.5402 in Eritrea, a difference of 0.0286.
That makes Seychelles's figure about 1.1 times Eritrea's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 17 shared years of data; in 1995 it was Eritrea ahead.
Eritrea ranks 12th and Seychelles ranks 10th of 53 countries.
Across the 3 decades both report, Eritrea averaged higher in 1 and Seychelles in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Eritrea | Seychelles | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.503 | 0.5019 | 0.0011 | Eritrea |
| 2000s | 0.5064 | 0.562 | 0.0556 | Seychelles |
| 2010s | 0.5465 | 0.5663 | 0.0199 | Seychelles |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher import product diversification index, Eritrea or Seychelles?
- Seychelles, at 0.5688 against 0.5402 in Eritrea as of 2011.
- What is the difference in import product diversification index between Eritrea and Seychelles?
- 0.0286, with Seychelles ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eritrea and Seychelles?
- 17 years are reported by both, from 1995 to 2011.
- How do Eritrea and Seychelles rank globally for import product diversification index?
- Eritrea ranks 12th and Seychelles ranks 10th 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.