Import product concentration index in Eswatini
Eswatini: Import product concentration index was 0.1382 in 2011. ▲ Rising
Import product concentration index in Eswatini, 1995–2011
Source: UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/).
Analysis
Eswatini recorded 0.1382 for import product concentration index in 2011.
That represents a change of up 61.7% on the previous year and up 105.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, import product concentration index in Eswatini peaked at 0.1396 in 2004 and was at its lowest, 0.0472, in 1995.
That places Eswatini 28th out of 53 countries with data for 2011, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Import product concentration index in Eswatini, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0.0472 | — |
| 1996 | 0.0506 | +7.4% |
| 1997 | 0.0534 | +5.5% |
| 1998 | 0.0492 | -8.0% |
| 1999 | 0.0548 | +11.5% |
| 2000 | 0.0832 | +51.8% |
| 2001 | 0.0673 | -19.1% |
| 2002 | 0.082 | +22.0% |
| 2003 | 0.0883 | +7.6% |
| 2004 | 0.1396 | +58.2% |
| 2005 | 0.1035 | -25.9% |
| 2006 | 0.0946 | -8.6% |
| 2007 | 0.0906 | -4.3% |
| 2008 | 0.107 | +18.2% |
| 2009 | 0.0754 | -29.5% |
| 2010 | 0.0855 | +13.3% |
| 2011 | 0.1382 | +61.7% |
Eswatini compared with similar countries
- Eswatini's 0.1382 is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.1371, 1.0× the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Eswatini's 0.1382 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.1457, 95% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.051 | 0.0472 | 0.0548 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.0931 | 0.0673 | 0.1396 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.1119 | 0.0855 | 0.1382 | 2 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is import product concentration index in Eswatini?
- Import product concentration index in Eswatini was 0.1382 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 import product concentration index recorded in Eswatini?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1396 in 2004.
- What is the lowest import product concentration index recorded in Eswatini?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0472 in 1995.
- How does Eswatini rank for import product concentration index?
- Eswatini ranks 28th out of 53 countries with data for 2011.
- Is import product concentration index rising or falling in Eswatini?
- Over the last ten years it is up 105.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Eswatini 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 Import 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 import 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 imports are concentrated in fewer sectors. On the contrary, values closer to 0 reflect a more equal distribution of market shares among importers. 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 importers look more concentrated.