Import product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa: Import product concentration index was 0.0956 in 2011. ▲ Rising
Import 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
Sub-Saharan Africa recorded 0.0956 for import product concentration index in 2011.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.8% on the previous year and up 21.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, import product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa peaked at 0.1029 in 2006 and was at its lowest, 0.0492, in 1995.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Import product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 0.0492 | — |
| 1996 | 0.0524 | +6.6% |
| 1997 | 0.0496 | -5.3% |
| 1998 | 0.0494 | -0.4% |
| 1999 | 0.0517 | +4.7% |
| 2000 | 0.0852 | +64.7% |
| 2001 | 0.0789 | -7.4% |
| 2002 | 0.0801 | +1.5% |
| 2003 | 0.0878 | +9.5% |
| 2004 | 0.0904 | +3.0% |
| 2005 | 0.0901 | -0.3% |
| 2006 | 0.1029 | +14.2% |
| 2007 | 0.0938 | -8.9% |
| 2008 | 0.0931 | -0.7% |
| 2009 | 0.0862 | -7.5% |
| 2010 | 0.093 | +8.0% |
| 2011 | 0.0956 | +2.8% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Import product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | +64.7% | 0.0517 | 0.0852 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.0505 | 0.0492 | 0.0524 | 5 |
| 2000s | 0.0889 | 0.0789 | 0.1029 | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.0943 | 0.093 | 0.0956 | 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 import product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Import product concentration index in Sub-Saharan Africa was 0.0956 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 Sub-Saharan Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1029 in 2006.
- What is the lowest import product concentration index recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0492 in 1995.
- How does Sub-Saharan Africa rank for import product concentration index?
- Sub-Saharan Africa ranks 1st out of 2 groups with data for 2011.
- Is import product concentration index rising or falling in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 21.1%. 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 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.