Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 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 excluding South Africa
Records
53
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Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | Export product diversification index
year value
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1995 0.70558385
1996 0.69918049
1997 0.69084042
1998 0.68678923
1999 0.70109928
2000 0.72660573
2001 0.70721112
2002 0.70120599
2003 0.6942387
2004 0.71088238
2005 0.70611669
2006 0.69695946
2007 0.68211303
2008 0.69317406
2009 0.68810964
2010 0.67081803
2011 0.68352451
2012

Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 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 excluding South Africa
Records
53
Source