Dealing with construction … Score 0-15 Building control in Gambia
Gambia: Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index was 23.33 in 2019. ▬ Flat
Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index in Gambia, 2014–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Gambia recorded 23.33 for dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Gambia ranks 179th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index in Gambia, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 23.33 | — |
| 2015 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
Gambia compared with similar countries
- Gambia's 23.33 is below the median for low income countries, which is 46.67, 50% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Gambia's 23.33 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 63.33, 37% of the median. (48 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Gambia
- 177 Comoros 26.67 compare
- 177 Guyana 26.67 compare
- 179 Nicaragua 23.33 compare
- 181 Afghanistan 20 compare
- 181 East Timor 20 compare
More private sector data for Gambia
- Merchandise trade 54.3% (2025)
- Food imports 22.0% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 44.7% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 894.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 90.7% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 1.0% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 514.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 182.13 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1982 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 41.6 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Gambia?
- Dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Gambia was 23.33 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest dealing with construction permits: building quality control index recorded in Gambia?
- The highest recorded value was 23.33 in 2014.
- What is the lowest dealing with construction permits: building quality control index recorded in Gambia?
- The lowest recorded value was 23.33 in 2014.
- How does Gambia rank for dealing with construction permits: building quality control index?
- Gambia ranks 179th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is dealing with construction permits: building quality control index rising or falling in Gambia?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Gambia data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index (0-15) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The score for the building quality control index 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.