Getting credit: Distance to frontier (0-100) by country

Getting credit: Distance to the frontier denotes the distance of each economy to the “frontier,” which represents the highest performance observed on the getting credit indicator across all economies included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0...

Countries reporting
184
Highest
100 0-100
Brunei
Lowest
0 0-100
Yemen
Median
55 0-100
Years covered
5
2015–2019
Data points
940

What the numbers show

Getting credit: Distance to frontier (0-100) is currently reported for 184 countries. The highest value is 100 0-100 in Brunei; the lowest is 0 0-100 in Yemen.

The median across all reporting countries is 55 0-100, and the mean is 52.64 0-100.

Getting credit: Distance to frontier: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Brunei 100 0-100 2019 rising
1 New Zealand 100 0-100 2019 flat
3 Colombia 95 0-100 2019 flat
3 Puerto Rico 95 0-100 2019 rising
3 Rwanda 95 0-100 2019 rising
3 United States 95 0-100 2019 flat
3 Zambia 95 0-100 2019 rising
8 Australia 90 0-100 2019 flat
8 Kenya 90 0-100 2019 rising
8 Mexico 90 0-100 2019 rising
8 Malawi 90 0-100 2019 volatile
12 Canada 85 0-100 2019 flat
12 Costa Rica 85 0-100 2019 rising
12 Georgia 85 0-100 2019 flat
12 Honduras 85 0-100 2019 flat
12 Jamaica 85 0-100 2019 flat
12 Latvia 85 0-100 2019 rising
12 North Macedonia 85 0-100 2019 rising
12 Montenegro 85 0-100 2019 flat
12 Nigeria 85 0-100 2019 rising
21 Azerbaijan 80 0-100 2019 rising
21 Guatemala 80 0-100 2019 flat
21 India 80 0-100 2019 rising
21 Cambodia 80 0-100 2019 rising
21 Mongolia 80 0-100 2019 rising
21 Panama 80 0-100 2019 rising
21 Palestine 80 0-100 2019 rising
21 Romania 80 0-100 2019 flat
21 Russia 80 0-100 2019 rising
21 El Salvador 80 0-100 2019 rising
31 United Kingdom 75 0-100 2019 flat
31 Hong Kong 75 0-100 2019 rising
31 Hungary 75 0-100 2019 rising
31 Kyrgyzstan 75 0-100 2019 rising
31 Malaysia 75 0-100 2019 rising
31 Peru 75 0-100 2019 flat
31 Poland 75 0-100 2019 flat
31 Singapore 75 0-100 2019 flat
31 Turkey 75 0-100 2019 rising
31 Ukraine 75 0-100 2019 flat
31 Vietnam 75 0-100 2019 rising
31 Vanuatu 75 0-100 2019 rising
43 Albania 70 0-100 2019 rising
43 United Arab Emirates 70 0-100 2019 rising
43 Armenia 70 0-100 2019 rising
43 Cote d'Ivoire 70 0-100 2019 rising
43 Czechia 70 0-100 2019 flat
43 Germany 70 0-100 2019 flat
43 Denmark 70 0-100 2019 flat
43 Estonia 70 0-100 2019 flat
43 Indonesia 70 0-100 2019 rising
43 Lithuania 70 0-100 2019 flat
43 Moldova 70 0-100 2019 flat
43 Papua New Guinea 70 0-100 2019 rising
43 Slovakia 70 0-100 2019 rising
43 Thailand 70 0-100 2019 rising
43 Tonga 70 0-100 2019 rising
59 Belgium 65 0-100 2019 rising
59 Bulgaria 65 0-100 2019 flat
59 Bosnia and Herzegovina 65 0-100 2019 flat
59 Egypt 65 0-100 2019 rising
59 Finland 65 0-100 2019 flat
59 Israel 65 0-100 2019 flat
59 Kazakhstan 65 0-100 2019 rising
59 South Korea 65 0-100 2019 flat
59 Mauritius 65 0-100 2019 flat
59 Serbia 65 0-100 2019 flat
59 Trinidad and Tobago 65 0-100 2019 flat
59 Tanzania 65 0-100 2019 rising
59 Uzbekistan 65 0-100 2019 rising
72 Switzerland 60 0-100 2019 flat
72 China 60 0-100 2019 rising
72 Cameroon 60 0-100 2019 rising
72 Cyprus 60 0-100 2019 flat
72 Spain 60 0-100 2019 flat
72 Ghana 60 0-100 2019 flat
72 Iceland 60 0-100 2019 flat
72 Laos 60 0-100 2019 rising
72 Namibia 60 0-100 2019 rising
72 Uganda 60 0-100 2019 rising
72 Uruguay 60 0-100 2019 flat
72 South Africa 60 0-100 2019 flat
84 Argentina 55 0-100 2019 flat
84 Austria 55 0-100 2019 flat
84 Belarus 55 0-100 2019 rising
84 Bhutan 55 0-100 2019 rising
84 Botswana 55 0-100 2019 flat
84 Chile 55 0-100 2019 flat
84 Guyana 55 0-100 2019 volatile
84 Croatia 55 0-100 2019 flat
84 Japan 55 0-100 2019 flat
84 Lesotho 55 0-100 2019 rising
84 Norway 55 0-100 2019 flat
84 Sweden 55 0-100 2019 flat
84 Eswatini 55 0-100 2019 rising
84 Zimbabwe 55 0-100 2019 rising
98 Afghanistan 50 0-100 2019 rising
98 Brazil 50 0-100 2019 rising
98 France 50 0-100 2019 flat
98 Micronesia (country) 50 0-100 2019 flat
98 Greece 50 0-100 2019 flat
98 Iran 50 0-100 2019 rising
98 Marshall Islands 50 0-100 2019 flat
98 Nicaragua 50 0-100 2019 rising
98 Nepal 50 0-100 2019 rising
98 Palau 50 0-100 2019 flat
98 Solomon Islands 50 0-100 2019 flat
98 Tunisia 50 0-100 2019 rising
110 Bahrain 45 0-100 2019 rising
110 Dominican Republic 45 0-100 2019 flat
110 Ecuador 45 0-100 2019 flat
110 Italy 45 0-100 2019 flat
110 Liberia 45 0-100 2019 rising
110 Morocco 45 0-100 2019 rising
110 Netherlands 45 0-100 2019 rising
110 Pakistan 45 0-100 2019 rising
110 Portugal 45 0-100 2019 flat
110 Saudi Arabia 45 0-100 2019 flat
110 Slovenia 45 0-100 2019 rising
110 Samoa 45 0-100 2019 rising
122 Comoros 40 0-100 2019 rising
122 Gabon 40 0-100 2019 flat
122 Equatorial Guinea 40 0-100 2019 flat
122 Lebanon 40 0-100 2019 flat
122 Sri Lanka 40 0-100 2019 flat
122 Madagascar 40 0-100 2019 volatile
122 Paraguay 40 0-100 2019 falling
122 Qatar 40 0-100 2019 rising
122 Tajikistan 40 0-100 2019 rising
122 Venezuela 40 0-100 2019 flat
132 Bolivia 35 0-100 2019 flat
132 Congo 35 0-100 2019 falling
132 Cape Verde 35 0-100 2019 flat
132 Gambia 35 0-100 2019 rising
132 Jordan 35 0-100 2019 volatile
132 Kuwait 35 0-100 2019 flat
132 Maldives 35 0-100 2019 flat
132 Oman 35 0-100 2019 flat
132 Seychelles 35 0-100 2019 rising
142 Benin 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Burkina Faso 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Bahamas 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Barbados 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Central African Republic 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Democratic Republic of Congo 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Dominica 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Guinea 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Guinea-Bissau 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Grenada 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Mali 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Mauritania 30 0-100 2019 rising
142 Niger 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Senegal 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 San Marino 30 0-100 2019 volatile
142 Chad 30 0-100 2019 flat
142 Togo 30 0-100 2019 flat
159 Antigua and Barbuda 25 0-100 2019 flat
159 Bangladesh 25 0-100 2019 flat
159 Djibouti 25 0-100 2019 volatile
159 Fiji 25 0-100 2019 falling
159 Saint Kitts and Nevis 25 0-100 2019 flat
159 Saint Lucia 25 0-100 2019 flat
159 Mozambique 25 0-100 2019 flat
159 Sudan 25 0-100 2019 rising
159 Sierra Leone 25 0-100 2019 flat
159 Sao Tome and Principe 25 0-100 2019 flat
159 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 25 0-100 2019 flat
170 Belize 20 0-100 2019 flat
170 Kiribati 20 0-100 2019 flat
170 East Timor 20 0-100 2019 flat
173 Ethiopia 15 0-100 2019 flat
173 Syria 15 0-100 2019 flat
176 Burundi 10 0-100 2019 flat
176 Algeria 10 0-100 2019 flat
176 Haiti 10 0-100 2019 flat
176 Myanmar 10 0-100 2019 flat
176 South Sudan 10 0-100 2019 flat
176 Suriname 10 0-100 2019 flat
182 Angola 5 0-100 2019 flat
182 Philippines 5 0-100 2019 flat
184 Eritrea 0 0-100 2019 flat
184 Iraq 0 0-100 2019 flat
184 Libya 0 0-100 2019 flat
184 Yemen 0 0-100 2019 flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Getting credit: Distance to frontier (0-100)
Unit
0-100
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
188 places, 940 data points, 2015–2019
Last refreshed

Getting credit: Distance to the frontier denotes the distance of each economy to the “frontier,” which represents the highest performance observed on the getting credit indicator across all economies included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier.