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

Nigeria: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 29.2 in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
29.2
Change on year
up 26.5%
World rank
180th
of 191 countries
All-time high
29.2
in 2019
All-time low
19.93
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

01020302014201620192014: 19.92015: 19.92016: 19.92017: 19.92018: 23.12019: 29.2

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Nigeria stood at 29.2. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 26.5% on the previous year and up 46.5% over ten years.

Nigeria ranks 180th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Nigeria, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 19.93
2015 19.93 +0.0%
2016 19.93 +0.0%
2017 19.93 +0.0%
2018 23.08 +15.8%
2019 29.2 +26.5%

Nigeria compared with similar countries

  • Nigeria's 29.2 is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 62.08, 47% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
  • Nigeria's 29.2 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 59.62, 49% of the median. (48 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Nigeria

  1. 177 Bangladesh 31.76 compare
  2. 178 Afghanistan 30.63 compare
  3. 179 Syria 29.83 compare
  4. 181 South Sudan 26.19 compare
  5. 182 Iraq 25.33 compare
  6. 183 Tanzania 20.21 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Nigeria?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Nigeria was 29.2 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Nigeria?
The highest recorded value was 29.2 in 2019.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Nigeria?
The lowest recorded value was 19.93 in 2014.
How does Nigeria rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
Nigeria ranks 180th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in Nigeria?
Over the last ten years it is up 46.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Nigeria 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.