Export product concentration index in Zambia
Zambia: Export product concentration index was 0.6462 in 2011. ▲ Rising
Export product concentration index in Zambia, 1995–2011
Source: UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/).
Analysis
Zambia recorded 0.6462 for export product concentration index in 2011.
That represents a change of down 7.4% on the previous year and up 24.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, export product concentration index in Zambia peaked at 0.7521 in 1995 and was at its lowest, 0.3754, in 1999.
That places Zambia 12th out of 53 countries with data for 2011, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Export product concentration index in Zambia, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0.7521 | — |
| 1996 | 0.6233 | -17.1% |
| 1997 | 0.545 | -12.6% |
| 1998 | 0.5223 | -4.2% |
| 1999 | 0.3754 | -28.1% |
| 2000 | 0.4653 | +23.9% |
| 2001 | 0.5189 | +11.5% |
| 2002 | 0.5317 | +2.5% |
| 2003 | 0.5117 | -3.8% |
| 2004 | 0.4692 | -8.3% |
| 2005 | 0.519 | +10.6% |
| 2006 | 0.606 | +16.8% |
| 2007 | 0.6394 | +5.5% |
| 2008 | 0.607 | -5.1% |
| 2009 | 0.6272 | +3.3% |
| 2010 | 0.6977 | +11.3% |
| 2011 | 0.6462 | -7.4% |
Zambia compared with similar countries
- Zambia's 0.6462 is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.301, 2.1× the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Zambia's 0.6462 is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.4301, 1.5× the median. (47 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.5636 | 0.3754 | 0.7521 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.5495 | 0.4653 | 0.6394 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.672 | 0.6462 | 0.6977 | 2 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is export product concentration index in Zambia?
- Export product concentration index in Zambia was 0.6462 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 Zambia?
- The highest recorded value was 0.7521 in 1995.
- What is the lowest export product concentration index recorded in Zambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3754 in 1999.
- How does Zambia rank for export product concentration index?
- Zambia ranks 12th out of 53 countries with data for 2011.
- Is export product concentration index rising or falling in Zambia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zambia 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.