Export product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa: Export product concentration index was 0.4489 in 2011. ▲ Rising
Export product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa, 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 Sub-Saharan Africa is 0.4489, measured in 2011.
The figure is up 12.9% on the previous year and up 57.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, export product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa peaked at 0.4652 in 2008 and was at its lowest, 0.1707, in 1998.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.2162 | 0.1707 | 0.2468 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.3645 | 0.2671 | 0.4652 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.4232 | 0.3975 | 0.4489 | 2 |
Countries ranked near Sub-Saharan Africa
More trade data for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Net long-term borrowing -262.73 million BoP, current US$ (2011)
- Pesticides imports 843.91 million FAO, current US$ (2011)
- Lead time to export, median case 9.32 days (2018)
- Food imports excluding fish 28.97 billion FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Total agricultural imports 35.79 billion FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal imports 9.81 billion FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal imports quantity 29.80 million FAO, tonnes (2010)
- Total agricultural exports 29.52 billion FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal exports 865.33 million FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal exports quantity 3.12 million FAO, tonnes (2010)
Frequently asked questions
- What is export product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Export product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa 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 Sub-Saharan Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 0.4652 in 2008.
- What is the lowest export product concentration index recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.1707 in 1998.
- How does Sub-Saharan Africa rank for export product concentration index?
- Sub-Saharan Africa ranks 2nd out of 2 groups with data for 2011.
- Is export product concentration index rising or falling in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 57.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sub-Saharan Africa 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.