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

Liberia: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 19.18 in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
19.18
Change on year
down 30.9%
World rank
185th
of 191 countries
All-time high
27.82
in 2014
All-time low
19.18
in 2019
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

01020302014201620192014: 27.82015: 27.82016: 27.82017: 27.82018: 27.82019: 19.2

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Liberia stood at 19.18. That is the lowest value across all 6 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 30.9% on the previous year and down 31.1% over ten years.

That places Liberia 185th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Liberia, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 27.82 —
2015 27.82 +0.0%
2016 27.77 -0.2%
2017 27.77 +0.0%
2018 27.77 +0.0%
2019 19.18 -30.9%

Liberia compared with similar countries

  • Liberia's 19.18 is below the median for low income countries, which is 52.12, 37% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
  • Liberia's 19.18 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 59.62, 32% of the median. (48 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Liberia

  1. 182 Iraq 25.33 compare
  2. 183 Tanzania 20.21 compare
  3. 184 Congo 19.68 compare
  4. 186 Sudan 18.96 compare
  5. 187 Cameroon 15.99 compare
  6. 188 Democratic Republic of Congo 3.45 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Liberia?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Liberia was 19.18 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Liberia?
The highest recorded value was 27.82 in 2014.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Liberia?
The lowest recorded value was 19.18 in 2019.
How does Liberia rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
Liberia ranks 185th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in Liberia?
Over the last ten years it is down 31.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Liberia 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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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
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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.