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

Japan: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 85.94 in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
85.94
Change on year
down 0.4%
World rank
58th
of 191 countries
All-time high
86.51
in 2014
All-time low
85.94
in 2019
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

0204060802014201620192014: 86.52015: 86.52016: 86.52017: 86.52018: 86.32019: 85.9

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Japan stood at 85.94. That is the lowest value across all 6 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.4% on the previous year and down 0.7% over ten years.

That places Japan 58th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Japan, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 86.51 —
2015 86.51 +0.0%
2016 86.51 +0.0%
2017 86.51 +0.0%
2018 86.26 -0.3%
2019 85.94 -0.4%

Japan compared with similar countries

  • Japan's 85.94 is below the median for high income countries, which is 90.67, 95% of the median. (62 countries reporting)
  • Japan's 85.94 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 70.56, 1.2× the median. (28 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Japan

  1. 55 Palestine 86.67 compare
  2. 56 Botswana 86.65 compare
  3. 57 China 86.5 compare
  4. 59 Morocco 85.58 compare
  5. 60 Panama 85.47 compare
  6. 61 Nepal 85.14 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Japan?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Japan was 85.94 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Japan?
The highest recorded value was 86.51 in 2014.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Japan?
The lowest recorded value was 85.94 in 2019.
How does Japan rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
Japan ranks 58th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in Japan?
Over the last ten years it is down 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Japan 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.