Gabon | 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
Gabonese Republic
Records
53
Source
Gabon | Export product concentration index
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1995 0.80686238
1996 0.77592821
1997 0.74998311
1998 0.73030661
1999 0.6417443
2000 0.73460179
2001 0.75259568
2002 0.75083164
2003 0.73583883
2004 0.72052702
2005 0.76953592
2006 0.7542103
2007 0.72475697
2008 0.72242617
2009 0.71851414
2010 0.726003
2011 0.75018407
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Gabon | 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
Gabonese Republic
Records
53
Source