Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score was 75.98 in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
75.98
Change on year
up 39.9%
World rank
87th
of 191 countries
All-time high
75.98
in 2019
All-time low
48.45
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

0204060802014201620192014: 48.52015: 48.52016: 48.52017: 49.62018: 54.32019: 76

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Saudi Arabia stood at 75.98. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

That represents a change of up 39.9% on the previous year and up 56.8% over ten years.

Saudi Arabia ranks 87th of 191 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Saudi Arabia, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 48.45 —
2015 48.45 +0.0%
2016 48.45 +0.0%
2017 49.59 +2.4%
2018 54.31 +9.5%
2019 75.98 +39.9%

Saudi Arabia compared with similar countries

  • Saudi Arabia's 75.98 is below the median for high income countries, which is 90.67, 84% of the median. (62 countries reporting)
  • Saudi Arabia's 75.98 is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 68.83, 1.1× the median. (23 countries reporting)

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  5. 89 Rwanda 74.98 compare
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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Saudi Arabia?
Trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score in Saudi Arabia was 75.98 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Saudi Arabia?
The highest recorded value was 75.98 in 2019.
What is the lowest trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score recorded in Saudi Arabia?
The lowest recorded value was 48.45 in 2014.
How does Saudi Arabia rank for trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score?
Saudi Arabia ranks 87th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders (db16-20 methodology) - score rising or falling in Saudi Arabia?
Over the last ten years it is up 56.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Saudi Arabia 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
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.