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

Malawi: Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance was 77.41 in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
77.41
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
124th
of 191 countries
All-time high
77.41
in 2017
All-time low
73.87
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

0204060802014201620192014: 73.92015: 73.92016: 73.92017: 77.42018: 77.42019: 77.4

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

Malawi recorded 77.41 for trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.8% over ten years.

Malawi ranks 124th of 191 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance (hours) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Malawi, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 73.87 —
2015 73.87 +0.0%
2016 73.87 +0.0%
2017 77.41 +4.8%
2018 77.41 +0.0%
2019 77.41 +0.0%

Malawi compared with similar countries

  • Malawi's 77.41 is above the median for low income countries, which is 47.7, 1.6× the median. (24 countries reporting)
  • Malawi's 77.41 is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 67.36, 1.1× the median. (48 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Malawi

  1. 122 Djibouti 79.5 compare
  2. 123 Jordan 77.47 compare
  3. 125 Jamaica 76.99 compare
  4. 126 Madagascar 76.3 compare
  5. 127 Benin 75.87 compare

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 Malawi?
Trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Malawi was 77.41 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Malawi?
The highest recorded value was 77.41 in 2017.
What is the lowest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Malawi?
The lowest recorded value was 73.87 in 2014.
How does Malawi rank for trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance?
Malawi ranks 124th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance rising or falling in Malawi?
Over the last ten years it is up 4.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Malawi 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.