Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance was 19.25 in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
19.25
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
182nd
of 191 countries
All-time high
19.25
in 2017
All-time low
13.05
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance in Ethiopia, 2014–2019

051015202014201620192014: 13.12015: 13.12016: 13.12017: 19.22018: 19.22019: 19.2

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

The most recent figure for trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Ethiopia is 19.25, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

That represents a change of up 47.4% over ten years.

That places Ethiopia 182nd out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.

Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance in Ethiopia, year by year

Annual values for Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance (hours) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Ethiopia, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 13.05 —
2015 13.05 +0.0%
2016 13.05 +0.0%
2017 19.25 +47.4%
2018 19.25 +0.0%
2019 19.25 +0.0%

Ethiopia compared with similar countries

  • Ethiopia's 19.25 is below the median for low income countries, which is 47.7, 40% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
  • Ethiopia's 19.25 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 67.36, 29% of the median. (48 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Ethiopia

  1. 179 Iraq 26.78 compare
  2. 180 Burundi 25.1 compare
  3. 180 Togo 25.1 compare
  4. 183 Congo 13.39 compare
  5. 184 Afghanistan 0
  6. 184 Egypt 0 compare
  7. 184 Equatorial Guinea 0
  8. 184 Eritrea 0
  9. 184 South Sudan 0
  10. 184 Tanzania 0
  11. 184 Venezuela 0
  12. 184 Yemen 0

See the full ranking of 191 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Ethiopia?
Trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Ethiopia was 19.25 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Ethiopia?
The highest recorded value was 19.25 in 2017.
What is the lowest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Ethiopia?
The lowest recorded value was 13.05 in 2014.
How does Ethiopia rank for trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance?
Ethiopia ranks 182nd out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance rising or falling in Ethiopia?
Over the last ten years it is up 47.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Ethiopia data come from?
The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance (hours) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance (hours) (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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The score for the time for documentary compliance to import benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.