Export product concentration index in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Export product concentration index was 0.8939 in 2011. ▲ Rising
Export product concentration index in Guinea-Bissau, 1995–2011
Source: UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/).
Analysis
The most recent figure for export product concentration index in Guinea-Bissau is 0.8939, measured in 2011.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 18.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, export product concentration index in Guinea-Bissau peaked at 0.9257 in 2005 and was at its lowest, 0.4366, in 1998.
That places Guinea-Bissau 4th out of 53 countries with data for 2011, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Export product concentration index in Guinea-Bissau, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0.5016 | — |
| 1996 | 0.4991 | -0.5% |
| 1997 | 0.4991 | -0.0% |
| 1998 | 0.4366 | -12.5% |
| 1999 | 0.5515 | +26.3% |
| 2000 | 0.5855 | +6.2% |
| 2001 | 0.7558 | +29.1% |
| 2002 | 0.6838 | -9.5% |
| 2003 | 0.6944 | +1.6% |
| 2004 | 0.7176 | +3.3% |
| 2005 | 0.9257 | +29.0% |
| 2006 | 0.8857 | -4.3% |
| 2007 | 0.8879 | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 0.8948 | +0.8% |
| 2009 | 0.8939 | -0.1% |
| 2010 | 0.8938 | -0.0% |
| 2011 | 0.8939 | +0.0% |
Guinea-Bissau compared with similar countries
- Guinea-Bissau's 0.8939 is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.4395, 2.0× the median. (20 countries reporting)
- Guinea-Bissau's 0.8939 is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.4301, 2.1× the median. (47 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Export product concentration index in Guinea-Bissau changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | +29.1% | 0.5855 | 0.7558 |
| 2005 | +29.0% | 0.7176 | 0.9257 |
| 1999 | +26.3% | 0.4366 | 0.5515 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.4976 | 0.4366 | 0.5515 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.7925 | 0.5855 | 0.9257 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8939 | 0.8938 | 0.8939 | 2 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is export product concentration index in Guinea-Bissau?
- Export product concentration index in Guinea-Bissau was 0.8939 in 2011, according to UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/).
- What is the highest export product concentration index recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9257 in 2005.
- What is the lowest export product concentration index recorded in Guinea-Bissau?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4366 in 1998.
- How does Guinea-Bissau rank for export product concentration index?
- Guinea-Bissau ranks 4th out of 53 countries with data for 2011.
- Is export product concentration index rising or falling in Guinea-Bissau?
- Over the last ten years it is up 18.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea-Bissau data come from?
- The figures come from UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/), published as part of Export product concentration index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
This indicator reflects the Herfindahl-Hirschmann index measure of the degree of export 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 exports are concentrated in fewer sectors. On the contrary, values closer to 0 reflect a more equal distribution of market shares among exporters. 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 exporters look more concentrated.