Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance was 80.33 in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
80.33
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
111th
of 191 countries
All-time high
80.33
in 2017
All-time low
76.15
in 2014
Years of data
6
2014–2019

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

0204060802014201620192014: 76.22015: 76.22016: 76.22017: 80.32018: 80.32019: 80.3

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Sri Lanka stood at 80.33. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.

The figure is up 5.5% over ten years.

Sri Lanka ranks 111th of 191 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

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

Annual values for Trading across borders: Time to import: Documentary compliance (hours) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score in Sri Lanka, 2014 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2014 76.15 —
2015 76.15 +0.0%
2016 76.15 +0.0%
2017 80.33 +5.5%
2018 80.33 +0.0%
2019 80.33 +0.0%

Sri Lanka compared with similar countries

  • Sri Lanka's 80.33 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 89.85, 89% of the median. (56 countries reporting)
  • Sri Lanka's 80.33 is above the median for South Asia, which is 80.33, 1.0× the median. (6 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Sri Lanka

  1. 109 Palestine 81.45 compare
  2. 110 Barbados 81.17 compare
  3. 111 Antigua and Barbuda 80.33 compare
  4. 111 Kiribati 80.33 compare
  5. 111 Myanmar 80.33 compare
  6. 111 Nepal 80.33 compare
  7. 111 Papua New Guinea 80.33 compare
  8. 111 Peru 80.33 compare
  9. 111 Rwanda 80.33 compare
  10. 111 Ukraine 80.33 compare
  11. 111 Uruguay 80.33 compare
  12. 111 Vanuatu 80.33 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Sri Lanka?
Trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance in Sri Lanka was 80.33 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Sri Lanka?
The highest recorded value was 80.33 in 2017.
What is the lowest trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance recorded in Sri Lanka?
The lowest recorded value was 76.15 in 2014.
How does Sri Lanka rank for trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance?
Sri Lanka ranks 111th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Is trading across borders: time to import: documentary compliance rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
Over the last ten years it is up 5.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Sri Lanka 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.