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

Malawi: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 65.29 in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
65.29
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
128th
of 191 countries
All-time high
65.29
in 2017
All-time low
63.32
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

02040602014201620192014: 63.32015: 63.32016: 63.32017: 65.32018: 65.32019: 65.3

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

Malawi recorded 65.29 for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.1% over ten years.

That places Malawi 128th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Malawi, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 63.32
2015 63.32 +0.0%
2016 63.32 +0.0%
2017 65.29 +3.1%
2018 65.29 +0.0%
2019 65.29 +0.0%

Malawi compared with similar countries

  • Malawi's 65.29 is above the median for low income countries, which is 52.12, 1.3× the median. (24 countries reporting)
  • Malawi's 65.29 is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 59.62, 1.1× the median. (48 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Malawi

  1. 125 Sao Tome and Principe 66.03 compare
  2. 126 Papua New Guinea 65.75 compare
  3. 127 Niger 65.4 compare
  4. 129 Paraguay 65.1 compare
  5. 130 Libya 64.66 compare
  6. 131 Honduras 64.27 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Malawi?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Malawi was 65.29 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Malawi?
The highest recorded value was 65.29 in 2017.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Malawi?
The lowest recorded value was 63.32 in 2014.
How does Malawi rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
Malawi ranks 128th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in Malawi?
Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Malawi 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.