Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | Export product diversification index

The diversification index signals whether the structure of exports by product of a given country or group of countries differ from the structure of product of the world. Diversification index is computed by measuring absolute deviation of the country share from world structure. Diversification index that ranges from 0 to 1 reveals the extent of the differences between the structure of trade of the country or country group and the world average. The index value closer to 1 indicates a bigger difference from the world average. It is constructed as the inverse of a Herfindahl index, using disaggregated exports at 4 digits (following the STIC3).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Sub-Saharan Africa
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53
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Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | Export product diversification index
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1995 0.53272676
1996 0.53693103
1997 0.51453843
1998 0.50964013
1999 0.55542713
2000 0.61119322
2001 0.59697261
2002 0.59336959
2003 0.5882794
2004 0.60370893
2005 0.61012951
2006 0.60163763
2007 0.6020363
2008 0.60455544
2009 0.59544649
2010 0.58506707
2011 0.59287522
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Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | Export product diversification index

The diversification index signals whether the structure of exports by product of a given country or group of countries differ from the structure of product of the world. Diversification index is computed by measuring absolute deviation of the country share from world structure. Diversification index that ranges from 0 to 1 reveals the extent of the differences between the structure of trade of the country or country group and the world average. The index value closer to 1 indicates a bigger difference from the world average. It is constructed as the inverse of a Herfindahl index, using disaggregated exports at 4 digits (following the STIC3).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Sub-Saharan Africa
Records
53
Source