Sao Tome and Principe | 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
Sao Tome and Principe
Records
53
Source
Sao Tome and Principe | Export product concentration index
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0.58900444 1996
0.90829667 1997
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0.33629626 1999
0.40358724 2000
0.30364251 2001
0.56060842 2002
0.63280497 2003
0.41965906 2004
0.61401229 2005
0.49732232 2006
0.38210411 2007
0.56556341 2008
0.47354515 2009
0.39168644 2010
0.58582687 2011
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Sao Tome and Principe | 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
Sao Tome and Principe
Records
53
Source