Burden of customs procedure, WEF (1=extremely inefficient to 7=extremely efficient) - Transportation - Infrastructure - World Development Indicators

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Burden of Customs Procedure measures business executives' perceptions of their country's efficiency of customs procedures. The rating ranges from 1 to 7, with a higher score indicating greater efficiency. Data are from the World Economic Forum's Executive Opinion Survey, conducted for 30 years in collaboration with 150 partner institutes. The 2009 round included more than 13,000 respondents from 133 countries. Sampling follows a dual stratification based on company size and the sector of activity. Data are collected online or through in-person interviews. Responses are aggregated using sector-weighted averaging. The data for the latest year are combined with the data for the previous year to create a two-year moving average. Respondents evaluated the efficiency of customs procedures in their country. The lowest score (1) rates the customs procedure as extremely inefficient, and the highest score (7) as extremely efficient.

Rank	Country	Value
Burden of customs procedure, WEF (1=extremely inefficient to 7=extremely efficient) - Transportation - Infrastructure - World Development Indicators (2009)
1	Singapore	6.39
2	Hong Kong	6.15
3	United Arab Emirates	5.94
4	New Zealand	5.88
5	Chile	5.82
6	Denmark	5.79
7	Sweden	5.79
8	Luxembourg	5.76
9	Finland	5.66
10	Estonia	5.46
11	Slovenia	5.36
12	Bahrain	5.31
13	Austria	5.31
14	Iceland	5.24
15	Netherlands	5.21
16	Norway	5.18
17	Cyprus	5.12
18	Ireland	5.12
19	Switzerland	5.11
20	Gambia	5.10
21	Germany	5.09
22	Oman	5.07
23	Australia	4.93
24	High income: OECD	4.93
25	Euro area	4.92
26	High income	4.88
27	Portugal	4.88
28	Lithuania	4.80
29	High income: nonOECD	4.80
30	Malta	4.79
31	Malaysia	4.77
32	Saudi Arabia	4.76
33	France	4.76
34	Puerto Rico	4.72
35	Canada	4.72
36	Slovakia	4.68
37	Jordan	4.64
38	United Kingdom	4.63
39	Brunei Darussalam	4.62
40	Belgium	4.59
41	Mauritius	4.59
42	United States	4.58
43	China	4.57
44	Georgia	4.57
45	Czech Republic	4.55
46	South Korea	4.55
47	North Korea	4.55
48	Qatar	4.52
49	Dominican Republic	4.46
50	Botswana	4.43
51	Senegal	4.43
52	Spain	4.42
53	Japan	4.40
54	Panama	4.35
55	South Africa	4.32
56	Hungary	4.26
57	Guatemala	4.25
58	Namibia	4.23
59	Tunisia	4.22
60	Morocco	4.12
61	Latvia	4.11
62	El Salvador	4.09
63	Romania	4.08
64	Thailand	4.06
65	Greece	4.05
66	Honduras	4.03
67	Macedonia	4.03
68	Mauritania	4.02
69	Montenegro	4
70	Italy	3.99
71	Israel	3.97
72	Egypt	3.97
73	Costa Rica	3.92
74	Poland	3.92
75	India	3.91
76	Azerbaijan	3.87
77	Barbados	3.86
78	Uruguay	3.84
79	Croatia	3.83
80	Peru	3.81
81	Colombia	3.80
82	Nicaragua	3.80
83	Lesotho	3.79
84	Burkina Faso	3.78
85	Upper middle income	3.77
86	Zambia	3.77
87	Middle East & North Africa	3.72
88	Indonesia	3.70
89	Middle income	3.70
90	Malawi	3.70
91	East Asia & Pacific	3.68
92	Sri Lanka	3.67
93	Mali	3.67
94	Mexico	3.66
95	Paraguay	3.64
96	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.63
97	Bulgaria	3.63
98	Low & middle income	3.62
99	Pakistan	3.62
100	Europe & Central Asia	3.61
101	Latin America & Caribbean	3.61
102	Madagascar	3.61
103	Lower middle income	3.61
104	Vietnam	3.60
105	Albania	3.57
106	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.55
107	Kuwait	3.53
108	Least developed countries: UN classification	3.48
109	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	3.47
110	Libya	3.45
111	Ghana	3.44
112	Low income	3.42
113	South Asia	3.42
114	Benin	3.41
115	Turkey	3.40
116	Jamaica	3.38
117	Uganda	3.38
118	Serbia	3.34
119	Ivory Coast	3.32
120	Cambodia	3.32
121	Kenya	3.28
122	Ethiopia	3.27
123	Kazakhstan	3.27
124	Cameroon	3.22
125	Tajikistan	3.21
126	Mongolia	3.12
127	Mozambique	3.12
128	Ecuador	3.11
129	Nepal	3.11
130	Nigeria	3.09
131	Burundi	3.03
132	Zimbabwe	2.99
133	Ukraine	2.99
134	Philippines	2.98
135	Timor-Leste	2.98
136	Tanzania	2.97
137	Syria	2.92
138	Brazil	2.89
139	Suriname	2.85
140	Kyrgyzstan	2.82
141	Argentina	2.81
142	Guyana	2.80
143	Bolivia	2.80
144	Trinidad and Tobago	2.80
145	Bangladesh	2.77
146	Algeria	2.74
147	Russia	2.73
148	Armenia	2.67
149	Chad	2.32
150	Venezuela	1.83

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