Export product concentration index in Malawi
Malawi: Export product concentration index was 0.4489 in 2011. ▼ Falling
Export product concentration index in Malawi, 1995–2011
Source: UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/).
Analysis
Malawi recorded 0.4489 for export product concentration index in 2011. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of down 13.5% on the previous year and down 28.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, export product concentration index in Malawi peaked at 0.6555 in 1997 and was at its lowest, 0.4489, in 2011.
Malawi ranks 25th of 53 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.6232 | 0.579 | 0.6555 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.5805 | 0.5091 | 0.6429 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.4841 | 0.4489 | 0.5192 | 2 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
More trade data for Malawi
- Net long-term borrowing -1.20 million BoP, current US$ (2011)
- Pesticides imports 17.88 million FAO, current US$ (2011)
- Food imports excluding fish 274.41 million FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Total agricultural imports 442.79 million FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal imports 135.60 million FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal imports quantity 199,076 FAO, tonnes (2010)
- Total agricultural exports 1.26 billion FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal exports 10.25 million FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal exports quantity 26,085 FAO, tonnes (2010)
- Merchandise exports, WB 935.42 million current US$ (2011)
Frequently asked questions
- What is export product concentration index in Malawi?
- Export product concentration index in Malawi was 0.4489 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 Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 0.6555 in 1997.
- What is the lowest export product concentration index recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4489 in 2011.
- How does Malawi rank for export product concentration index?
- Malawi ranks 25th out of 53 countries with data for 2011.
- Is export product concentration index rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is down 28.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Malawi 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.