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

Samoa: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 57.81 in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
57.81
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
155th
of 191 countries
All-time high
57.81
in 2014
All-time low
57.81
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

02040602014201620192014: 57.82015: 57.82016: 57.82017: 57.82018: 57.82019: 57.8

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Samoa stood at 57.81. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

The figure is unchanged over ten years.

That places Samoa 155th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Samoa, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 57.81 —
2015 57.81 +0.0%
2016 57.81 +0.0%
2017 57.81 +0.0%
2018 57.81 +0.0%
2019 57.81 +0.0%

Samoa compared with similar countries

  • Samoa's 57.81 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 74.64, 77% of the median. (56 countries reporting)
  • Samoa's 57.81 is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 70.56, 82% of the median. (28 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Samoa

  1. 152 Guyana 58.27 compare
  2. 153 Uzbekistan 58.23 compare
  3. 154 Lebanon 57.9 compare
  4. 156 Zambia 56.88 compare
  5. 157 Ethiopia 56 compare
  6. 158 Maldives 55.87 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Samoa?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Samoa was 57.81 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Samoa?
The highest recorded value was 57.81 in 2014.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Samoa?
The lowest recorded value was 57.81 in 2014.
How does Samoa rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
Samoa ranks 155th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in Samoa?
Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Samoa 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.