Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 95.04 in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
95.04
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
29th
of 191 countries
All-time high
95.04
in 2014
All-time low
95.04
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

0204060801002014201620192014: 952015: 952016: 952017: 952018: 952019: 95

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Hong Kong stood at 95.04. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.

Hong Kong ranks 29th of 191 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Hong Kong, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 95.04 —
2015 95.04 +0.0%
2016 95.04 +0.0%
2017 95.04 +0.0%
2018 95.04 +0.0%
2019 95.04 +0.0%

Hong Kong compared with similar countries

  • Hong Kong's 95.04 is above the median for high income countries, which is 90.67, 1.0× the median. (62 countries reporting)
  • Hong Kong's 95.04 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 70.56, 1.3× the median. (28 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Hong Kong

  1. 26 Switzerland 96.06 compare
  2. 27 Bosnia and Herzegovina 95.73 compare
  3. 28 Latvia 95.26 compare
  4. 30 Bhutan 94.25 compare
  5. 31 Kosovo 94.15 compare
  6. 31 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 94.15 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Hong Kong?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Hong Kong was 95.04 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Hong Kong?
The highest recorded value was 95.04 in 2014.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Hong Kong?
The lowest recorded value was 95.04 in 2014.
How does Hong Kong rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
Hong Kong ranks 29th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in Hong Kong?
Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Hong Kong 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.