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

Lesotho: Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance was 100 in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
100
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
1st
of 191 countries
All-time high
100
in 2018
All-time low
99.16
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

0204060801002014201620192014: 99.22015: 99.22016: 99.22017: 99.22018: 1002019: 100

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Lesotho stood at 100. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.8% over ten years.

Lesotho ranks 1st of 191 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance (hours) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Lesotho, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 99.16 —
2015 99.16 +0.0%
2016 99.16 +0.0%
2017 99.16 +0.0%
2018 100 +0.8%
2019 100 +0.0%

Lesotho compared with similar countries

  • Lesotho's 100 is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 75.31, 1.3× the median. (47 countries reporting)
  • Lesotho's 100 is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 67.36, 1.5× the median. (48 countries reporting)

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Lesotho?
Trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Lesotho was 100 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Lesotho?
The highest recorded value was 100 in 2018.
What is the lowest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Lesotho?
The lowest recorded value was 99.16 in 2014.
How does Lesotho rank for trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance?
Lesotho ranks 1st out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance rising or falling in Lesotho?
Over the last ten years it is up 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Lesotho 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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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.