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Kenya vs Mauritius: Import product diversification index

Kenya
0.3946
in 2011
Mauritius
0.3828
in 2011
Kenya rank
49th
Mauritius rank
51st

Import product diversification index over time

  • Kenya
  • Mauritius
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How they compare

Kenya currently reports 0.3946 against 0.3828 in Mauritius, a difference of 0.0118.

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

Kenya ranks 49th and Mauritius ranks 51st of 53 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Import product diversification 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

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.