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according to World Bank (2018) Germany is the best performing country with an LPI score of
4.2. Among the OIC countries UAE is the best performing country and has a score of 3.96 which
is 94 percent of Germany’s score on a scale from 1 to 5 whereas the lowest performing OIC country
is Afghanistan28 with an LPI of 1.95 which is 46 per cent of Germany’s score.
Table 7: Best Performing OIC Countries According to the LPI 2018
Country
2014 LPI 2016 LPI 2018 LPI
Score Ranking Score Ranking Score Ranking
United Arab Emirates 3.54 27 3.94 13 3.96 11
Qatar 3.52 29 3.60 30 3.47 30
Malaysia 3.59 25 3.43 32 3.22 41
Oman 3.00 59 3.23 48 3.20 43
Indonesia 3.08 53 2.98 63 3.15 46
Turkey 3.50 30 3.42 34 3.15 47
Côte d'Ivoire 2.76 79 2.60 95 3.08 50
Saudi Arabia 3.15 49 3.16 52 3.01 55
Bahrain 3.08 52 3.31 44 2.93 59
Kuwait 3.01 56 3.15 53 2.86 63
memo item (first three best performing country in the world)
Germany 4.12 1 4.23 1 4.20 1
Sweden 3.96 6 4.20 3 4.05 2
Belgium 4.04 3 4.11 6 4.04 3
Source: Word Bank
Table 8: OIC Countries with the Lowest LPI Scores According to the LPI 2018
Country
2014 LPI 2016 LPI 2018 LPI
Score Ranking Score Ranking Score Ranking
Yemen 2.18 151 N.A. N.A. 2.27 140
Senegal 2.62 101 2.33 132 2.25 141
Somalia 1.77 160 1.75 158 2.21 144
Guinea 2.46 122 2.36 129 2.20 145
Iraq 2.30 141 2.15 149 2.18 147
Gabon 2.20 150 2.19 143 2.16 150
Libya 2.50 118 2.26 137 2.11 154
Sierra Leone N.A. N.A. 2.03 155 2.08 156
Niger 2.39 130 2.56 100 2.07 157
Afghanistan 2.07 158 2.14 150 1.95 160
Source: World Bank
The Enabling Trade Index produced byWorld Economic Forumand the Global Alliance for Trade
Facilitation is another indicator, which measures the performance of countries in enabling trade.
According to this measure, performance of some of the OIC countries 29 is below average while
some OIC countries such as UAE, Malaysia, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and Oman performed better.
29 Please see Appendix Table 7