Import product concentration index in South Africa
South Africa: Import product concentration index was 0.2285 in 2011. ▲ Rising
Import product concentration index in South Africa, 1995–2011
Source: UNCTAD Statistical Office, also reported in the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics, various issues (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/).
Analysis
South Africa recorded 0.2285 for import product concentration index in 2011. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of up 5.6% on the previous year and up 19.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, import product concentration index in South Africa peaked at 0.2285 in 2011 and was at its lowest, 0.081, in 1996.
That places South Africa 8th 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.084 | 0.081 | 0.087 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.1981 | 0.1523 | 0.2221 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.2224 | 0.2163 | 0.2285 | 2 |
Countries ranked near South Africa
More trade data for South Africa
- Net long-term borrowing 54.46 million BoP, current US$ (2011)
- Pesticides imports 335.54 million FAO, current US$ (2011)
- Lead time to export, median case 3 days (2016)
- Food imports excluding fish 3.15 billion FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Total agricultural imports 4.94 billion FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal imports 727.29 million FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal imports quantity 2.11 million FAO, tonnes (2010)
- Total agricultural exports 6.12 billion FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal exports 367.06 million FAO, current US$ (2010)
- Cereal exports quantity 1.38 million FAO, tonnes (2010)
Frequently asked questions
- What is import product concentration index in South Africa?
- Import product concentration index in South Africa was 0.2285 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 South Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 0.2285 in 2011.
- What is the lowest import product concentration index recorded in South Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.081 in 1996.
- How does South Africa rank for import product concentration index?
- South Africa ranks 8th out of 53 countries with data for 2011.
- Is import product concentration index rising or falling in South Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this South 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 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.