Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score in Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score was 78.28 in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
78.28
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
25th
of 191 countries
All-time high
90.49
in 2003
All-time low
78.28
in 2011
Years of data
17
2003–2019

Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score in Hong Kong, 2003–2019

0204060801002003201120192003: 90.52004: 90.52005: 90.52006: 90.52007: 90.52008: 90.52009: 84.82010: 84.82011: 78.32012: 78.32013: 78.32014: 78.32015: 78.32016: 78.32017: 78.32018: 78.32019: 78.3

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

Hong Kong recorded 78.28 for enforcing contracts: time (days) - score in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.

The figure is down 7.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, enforcing contracts: time (days) - score in Hong Kong peaked at 90.49 in 2003 and was at its lowest, 78.28, in 2011.

Hong Kong ranks 25th of 191 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.

Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score in Hong Kong, year by year

Annual values for Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score in Hong Kong, 2003 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2003 90.49 —
2004 90.49 +0.0%
2005 90.49 +0.0%
2006 90.49 +0.0%
2007 90.49 +0.0%
2008 90.49 +0.0%
2009 84.84 -6.2%
2010 84.84 +0.0%
2011 78.28 -7.7%
2012 78.28 +0.0%
2013 78.28 +0.0%
2014 78.28 +0.0%
2015 78.28 +0.0%
2016 78.28 +0.0%
2017 78.28 +0.0%
2018 78.28 +0.0%
2019 78.28 +0.0%

Hong Kong compared with similar countries

  • Hong Kong's 78.28 is above the median for high income countries, which is 64.39, 1.2× the median. (62 countries reporting)
  • Hong Kong's 78.28 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 73.57, 1.1× the median. (28 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 89.68 84.84 90.49 7
2010s 78.93 78.28 84.84 10

Countries ranked near Hong Kong

  1. 22 Mongolia 79.18 compare
  2. 23 Ukraine 78.85 compare
  3. 24 Niger 78.69 compare
  4. 26 Austria 77.3 compare
  5. 26 Fiji 77.3 compare
  6. 28 Nigeria 77.13 compare

See the full ranking of 191 places →

More reference data data for Hong Kong

All data for Hong Kong →

Frequently asked questions

What is enforcing contracts: time (days) - score in Hong Kong?
Enforcing contracts: time (days) - score in Hong Kong was 78.28 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest enforcing contracts: time (days) - score recorded in Hong Kong?
The highest recorded value was 90.49 in 2003.
What is the lowest enforcing contracts: time (days) - score recorded in Hong Kong?
The lowest recorded value was 78.28 in 2011.
How does Hong Kong rank for enforcing contracts: time (days) - score?
Hong Kong ranks 25th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is enforcing contracts: time (days) - score rising or falling in Hong Kong?
Over the last ten years it is down 7.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Hong Kong data come from?
The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 17 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score in Hong Kong. Statizoid. Retrieved 24 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/enforcing-contracts-time-days-score/hong-kong-sar-china/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/enforcing-contracts-time-days-score/hong-kong-sar-china/">Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score in Hong Kong</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Enforcing contracts: Time (days) - Score
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
191 places, 3,094 data points, 2003–2019
Last refreshed

The score for time to enforce contracts benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.