Binding coverage, all products (%) by country

Binding coverage is the percentage of product lines with an agreed bound rate. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country's schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable.

Countries reporting
158
Highest
100.0%
Democratic Republic of Congo
Lowest
0.0%
Zambia
Median
0.0%
Years covered
28
1995–2022
Data points
3,312

What the numbers show

Binding coverage, all products (%) is currently reported for 158 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Democratic Republic of Congo; the lowest is 0.0% in Zambia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0%, and the mean is 31.4%.

Over the past decade 21 countries rose and 118 fell. The largest increase was in Mozambique (up 8.4%), and the largest decrease in Albania (down 100.0%).

Binding coverage, all products: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Democratic Republic of Congo 100.0% 2020 up 0.0% flat
1 Tajikistan 100.0% 2021 up 0.0% flat
1 Trinidad and Tobago 100.0% 2022 up 0.0% flat
4 Angola 100.0% 2022 up 0.0% flat
4 United Arab Emirates 100.0% 2021 unchanged flat
4 Argentina 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
4 Armenia 100.0% 2021 down 0.0% flat
4 Bolivia 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Brazil 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
4 Chile 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
4 Colombia 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Djibouti 100.0% 2014 up 0.0% flat
4 Georgia 100.0% 2022 up 0.0% flat
4 Grenada 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Guyana 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Laos 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
4 Morocco 100.0% 2021 down 0.0% flat
4 Moldova 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Mexico 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
4 Peru 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Papua New Guinea 100.0% 2021 unchanged flat
4 Paraguay 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
4 Russia 100.0% 2021 down 0.0% flat
4 Seychelles 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Tonga 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Ukraine 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
4 Uruguay 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
28 Cape Verde 100.0% 2022 unchanged flat
28 Jordan 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
28 Venezuela 100.0% 2022 down 0.0% flat
28 Samoa 100.0% 2020 unchanged flat
32 Kyrgyzstan 99.9% 2021 unchanged flat
33 Kuwait 99.9% 2022 unchanged flat
34 Saint Lucia 99.8% 2020 down 0.1% flat
35 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 99.7% 2022 unchanged flat
36 Egypt 99.3% 2019 up 0.0% flat
37 Antigua and Barbuda 97.5% 2021 down 0.3% flat
38 Barbados 95.8% 2022 down 1.7% flat
38 Saint Kitts and Nevis 95.8% 2020 down 1.7% flat
40 Brunei 95.5% 2022 up 0.2% flat
41 Ecuador 94.6% 2022 down 0.3% flat
42 Vietnam 93.8% 2022 up 0.1% flat
43 Dominica 92.7% 2020 down 2.1% flat
44 Haiti 88.2% 2020 down 0.9% flat
45 Israel 75.8% 2022 up 2.0% flat
46 Singapore 72.0% 2022 up 1.6% flat
47 Philippines 62.1% 2022 down 0.4% falling
48 Tunisia 58.2% 2016 up 0.4% flat
49 Fiji 51.5% 2021 up 0.7% flat
50 Mauritania 40.6% 2022 down 2.8% flat
51 Sri Lanka 40.6% 2021 up 5.5% flat
52 Cote d'Ivoire 34.2% 2022 up 1.4% flat
53 Malawi 33.9% 2021 up 5.7% flat
54 Cuba 32.6% 2022 up 1.0% falling
55 Suriname 27.4% 2022 unchanged falling
56 Zimbabwe 24.4% 2021 up 8.4% flat
57 Myanmar 18.9% 2022 up 0.7% flat
58 Bangladesh 17.3% 2022 up 0.7% rising
59 Mozambique 14.9% 2021 up 8.4% flat
60 Albania 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Australia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Austria 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Burundi 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Belgium 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Benin 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Burkina Faso 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Bulgaria 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
60 Bahrain 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Belize 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Botswana 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Central African Republic 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Canada 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Switzerland 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 China 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Cameroon 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Congo 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Costa Rica 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Cyprus 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
60 Czechia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
60 Germany 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Denmark 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Dominican Republic 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Spain 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Estonia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
60 Finland 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 France 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Gabon 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 United Kingdom 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Ghana 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Guinea 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Gambia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Guinea-Bissau 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Greece 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Guatemala 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Hong Kong 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Honduras 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Croatia 0.0% 2022 volatile
60 Hungary 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% rising
60 Indonesia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 India 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Ireland 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Iceland 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Italy 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Jamaica 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Japan 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Kazakhstan 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Kenya 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Cambodia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 South Korea 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Liechtenstein 0.0% 2021 flat
60 Lesotho 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Lithuania 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% rising
60 Latvia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% rising
60 Macao 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Madagascar 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Maldives 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 North Macedonia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Mali 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Malta 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
60 Montenegro 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Mongolia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Mauritius 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Malaysia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Namibia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Niger 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Nigeria 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Nicaragua 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Netherlands 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Norway 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Nepal 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 New Zealand 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Oman 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Pakistan 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Panama 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Poland 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
60 Portugal 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Qatar 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Romania 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
60 Rwanda 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Saudi Arabia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Senegal 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Solomon Islands 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Sierra Leone 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 El Salvador 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Slovakia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% flat
60 Slovenia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% volatile
60 Sweden 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Eswatini 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Chad 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Togo 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Thailand 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Turkey 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Tanzania 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Uganda 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 United States 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Vanuatu 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 South Africa 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling
60 Zambia 0.0% 2022 down 100.0% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Binding coverage, all products (%)
Unit
%
Source
Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
159 places, 3,312 data points, 1995–2022
Last refreshed

Binding coverage is the percentage of product lines with an agreed bound rate. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country's schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable.