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

Malaysia: Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance was 97.7 in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
97.7
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
60th
of 191 countries
All-time high
97.7
in 2018
All-time low
96.23
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

0204060801002014201620192014: 96.22015: 96.22016: 96.22017: 96.22018: 97.72019: 97.7

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

The most recent figure for trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Malaysia is 97.7, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.5% over ten years.

That places Malaysia 60th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance (hours) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Malaysia, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 96.23 —
2015 96.23 +0.0%
2016 96.23 +0.0%
2017 96.23 +0.0%
2018 97.7 +1.5%
2019 97.7 +0.0%

Malaysia compared with similar countries

  • Malaysia's 97.7 is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 89.85, 1.1× the median. (56 countries reporting)
  • Malaysia's 97.7 is above the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 81.17, 1.2× the median. (28 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Malaysia

  1. 58 Kosovo 97.9 compare
  2. 58 Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 97.9 compare
  3. 61 Oman 97.49 compare
  4. 62 United States 97.28 compare
  5. 63 Albania 97.07 compare
  6. 63 Bhutan 97.07 compare
  7. 63 Bosnia and Herzegovina 97.07 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Malaysia?
Trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Malaysia was 97.7 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Malaysia?
The highest recorded value was 97.7 in 2018.
What is the lowest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Malaysia?
The lowest recorded value was 96.23 in 2014.
How does Malaysia rank for trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance?
Malaysia ranks 60th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance rising or falling in Malaysia?
Over the last ten years it is up 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Malaysia 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.