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

Egypt: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 42.23 in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
42.23
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
172nd
of 191 countries
All-time high
51.01
in 2014
All-time low
42.23
in 2016
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

02040602014201620192014: 512015: 512016: 42.22017: 42.22018: 42.22019: 42.2

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

The most recent figure for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Egypt is 42.23, measured in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 6 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 17.2% over ten years.

That places Egypt 172nd out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Egypt, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 51.01 —
2015 51.01 +0.0%
2016 42.23 -17.2%
2017 42.23 +0.0%
2018 42.23 +0.0%
2019 42.23 +0.0%

Egypt compared with similar countries

  • Egypt's 42.23 is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 62.08, 68% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
  • Egypt's 42.23 is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 68.83, 61% of the median. (23 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Egypt

  1. 169 Myanmar 47.67 compare
  2. 170 Burundi 47.34 compare
  3. 171 Gabon 43.94 compare
  4. 173 Algeria 38.43 compare
  5. 174 Chad 37.04 compare
  6. 175 Angola 36.15 compare

See the full ranking of 191 places →

More reference data data for Egypt

All data for Egypt →

Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Egypt?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Egypt was 42.23 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Egypt?
The highest recorded value was 51.01 in 2014.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Egypt?
The lowest recorded value was 42.23 in 2016.
How does Egypt rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
Egypt ranks 172nd out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in Egypt?
Over the last ten years it is down 17.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Egypt 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.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 6 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Egypt. Statizoid. Retrieved 25 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/trading-across-borders-db16-20-methodology-score/egypt-arab-rep/

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/trading-across-borders-db16-20-methodology-score/egypt-arab-rep/">Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Egypt</a> — Statizoid

About this data

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.