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1 . I D E n T I T Y : 2 . M A I n I n D I C AT O R S :
here we identify the country this section shows the economic Complexity index
using its name and flag. (eCi) for the year 2008 and the expected average
annualized growth for the 2009-2020 period.
the first number shows the value of the indicator.
numbers in parenthesis show the global ranking
and the regional ranking for the country.

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5 . T h E P R O D U C T S P A C E :
this section shows the position of a country in the
product space. the product space is the network
summarizing global similarities in the productive ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY INDEX [2008] ≥ 0.244 / (52/4) EXPECTED GDPpc GROWTH * ≥ 2.73% / (48/8) *Expected annual average for the 2009-2020 period.
knowhow required by products (see Chapter
5). nodes represent products and are colored
according to communities using the color legend
that can be found at the top right of the next page.
node size is proportional to global trade in that
product and links connect products that tend to
be exported by the same countries (see technical
Box 5.1). the footprint of a country on the product 2008
space is indicated using square nodes with thick PRODUCT
black outlines. these are the goods that the SPACE
country exports with rCa>1 (see Chapter 2).
PRODUCT
EXPORTED
WITH RCA>1
PRODUCT
NOT EXPORTED
WITH RCA>1
NODE SIzE IS PROPORTIONAL
TO WORLD TRADE
6 . E X P O R T O P P O R T U n I T Y
S P E C T R U M :
these two figures summarize the position of
a country in the product space. here, bubbles
represent a community of products and their size
is proportional to global trade in that product EXPORT OPPORTUNITY
community. the fraction of each bubble that is 2008 SPECTRUM
3 3
shown in white represents the fraction of all goods FRACTION OF
PRODUCTS WITH 2.5 2.5
in that community for which the country has an RCA > 1
rCa>1. in this example, out of 125 products in 2 2
22% OF WT
Machinery, Brazil makes 32 of them, so 75% of the 1.5 1.5
circle is filled with the color corresponding to the 6% OF WT Average Complexity of Missing Products 1 Average Complexity of Missing Products 1
machinery community. in both charts, the vertical 2% OF WT 0.5 0.5
0.8% OF WT
axis shows the average complexity of the products 0.06% OF WT 0 0
in that community that the country is not currently -0.5 -0.5
making. the horizontal axis on the left figure -1 -1
shows the distance between the country’s current 0.76 0.77 0.78 0.79 0.8 0.81 0.82 0.015 0.02 0.025 0.03
productive structure to each one of the product Distance Opportunity Gain
communities. the horizontal of the right figure EvOLUTION OF
displays the opportunity gain, which is a measure 2008 EXPORT COMPOSITION
of the number of new products that become closer 1 k
if the country were to move into that community 800
600
(see technical Box 5.3). For both the distance and 400
200
opportunity gain measures, only the products that 0
1968 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008
are more complex than the country’s complexity
level are considered. the dashed grey line indicates
the country’s level of economic complexity 7. E v O L U T I O n O f E X P O R T C O M P O S I T I O n :
measured using the economic Complexity index this section shows the evolution of the country’s exports per capita
(eCi). natural resource based communities are in dollars between 1968 and 2008 at constant 2008 prices.
not shown (mining, precious stones, coal and Colors indicate product communities.these are indicated in the top
oil). Communities for which countries export all right corner of the next page (for states that were formed after 1968,
products are not shown. we use as starting year the first year for which data is available).