Export product concentration index in Mauritius
Mauritius: Export product concentration index was 0.2463 in 2011. ▼ Falling
Export product concentration index in Mauritius, 1995–2011
Source: UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/).
Analysis
Mauritius recorded 0.2463 for export product concentration index in 2011. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.
The figure is down 1.0% on the previous year and down 28.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, export product concentration index in Mauritius peaked at 0.3875 in 1996 and was at its lowest, 0.2463, in 2011.
That places Mauritius 39th out of 53 countries with data for 2011, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.
Export product concentration index in Mauritius, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0.3579 | — |
| 1996 | 0.3875 | +8.3% |
| 1997 | 0.3696 | -4.6% |
| 1998 | 0.363 | -1.8% |
| 1999 | 0.362 | -0.3% |
| 2000 | 0.3645 | +0.7% |
| 2001 | 0.3445 | -5.5% |
| 2002 | 0.3218 | -6.6% |
| 2003 | 0.3264 | +1.5% |
| 2004 | 0.315 | -3.5% |
| 2005 | 0.2804 | -11.0% |
| 2006 | 0.2638 | -5.9% |
| 2007 | 0.2617 | -0.8% |
| 2008 | 0.2486 | -5.0% |
| 2009 | 0.2597 | +4.5% |
| 2010 | 0.2487 | -4.2% |
| 2011 | 0.2463 | -1.0% |
Mauritius compared with similar countries
- Mauritius's 0.2463 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 0.6216, 40% of the median. (8 countries reporting)
- Mauritius's 0.2463 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.4301, 57% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.368 | 0.3579 | 0.3875 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.2986 | 0.2486 | 0.3645 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.2475 | 0.2463 | 0.2487 | 2 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is export product concentration index in Mauritius?
- Export product concentration index in Mauritius was 0.2463 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 Mauritius?
- The highest recorded value was 0.3875 in 1996.
- What is the lowest export product concentration index recorded in Mauritius?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.2463 in 2011.
- How does Mauritius rank for export product concentration index?
- Mauritius ranks 39th out of 53 countries with data for 2011.
- Is export product concentration index rising or falling in Mauritius?
- Over the last ten years it is down 28.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Mauritius 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.