Angola | Export product concentration index

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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Angola
Records
53
Source
Angola | Export product concentration index
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1995 0.89509515
1996 0.90020308
1997 0.88617913
1998 0.85052346
1999 0.84556056
2000 0.88259483
2001 0.87925628
2002 0.90142401
2003 0.94050702
2004 0.96316559
2005 0.94445718
2006 0.95394216
2007 0.924468
2008 0.9650039
2009 0.95672431
2010 0.96538073
2011 0.97081526
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Angola | Export product concentration index

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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Angola
Records
53
Source