Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in China

China: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 86.5 in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
86.5
Change on year
up 3.7%
World rank
57th
of 191 countries
All-time high
86.5
in 2019
All-time low
70.71
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in China, 2014–2019

0204060802014201620192014: 70.72015: 70.72016: 70.72017: 70.72018: 83.42019: 86.5

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

The most recent figure for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in China is 86.5, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

The figure is up 3.7% on the previous year and up 22.3% over ten years.

That places China 57th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in China, year by year

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in China, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 70.71
2015 70.71 +0.0%
2016 70.71 +0.0%
2017 70.71 +0.0%
2018 83.39 +17.9%
2019 86.5 +3.7%

China compared with similar countries

  • China's 86.5 is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 74.64, 1.2× the median. (56 countries reporting)
  • China's 86.5 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 70.56, 1.2× the median. (28 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near China

  1. 54 Iceland 86.71 compare
  2. 55 Palestine 86.67 compare
  3. 56 Botswana 86.65 compare
  4. 58 Japan 85.94 compare
  5. 59 Morocco 85.58 compare
  6. 60 Panama 85.47 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in China?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in China was 86.5 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in China?
The highest recorded value was 86.5 in 2019.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in China?
The lowest recorded value was 70.71 in 2014.
How does China rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
China ranks 57th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in China?
Over the last ten years it is up 22.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this China data come from?
The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
191 places, 1,145 data points, 2014–2019
Last refreshed

Doing Business measures the time and cost associated with three sets of procedures of exporting and importing goods —documentary compliance, border compliance and domestic transport—within the overall process of exporting or importing a shipment of goods. The score for trading across borders is the simple average of the scores for the time and cost for documentary compliance and border compliance to export and import. It is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.