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Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products, 2009

2009, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the average tariff a country actually charges on the goods it imports, weighted by how much of each product it buys. It is the simplest single reading of how much a border taxes trade.

Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products, 2009 covers 151 countries. Maldives is highest, at 19.91; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 4.28. Against 2008, 137 values changed (84 up, 53 down), 5 countries joined, 11 left.

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Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products · Data for 2009

HighestMaldives

19.91

Lowest2 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products, 2009, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 151 countries · select a heading to sort

Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products, 2009: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia19.91
VanuatuVUTMelanesia18.76
BermudaBMUNorthern America18.68
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa18.61
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa17.27
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa15.40
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa15.23
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean15.11
SudanSDNNorthern Africa15.02
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean14.80
GabonGABMiddle Africa14.75
ChadTCDMiddle Africa14.27
BurundiBDIEastern Africa13.84
GambiaGMBWestern Africa13.46
NepalNPLSouthern Asia12.65
FijiFJIMelanesia12.15
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa12.04
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa11.93
GuineaGINWestern Africa11.75
BelizeBLZCentral America11.68
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa11.58
GuyanaGUYSouth America11.58
BeninBENWestern Africa11.03
SurinameSURSouth America10.78
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia10.71

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Maldives19.91
  2. Vanuatu18.76
  3. Bermuda18.68
  4. Tunisia18.61
  5. Djibouti17.27

Lowest

  1. Macaushared0.00
  2. Hong Kongshared0.00
  3. Singapore0.06
  4. Georgia0.50
  5. Botswana0.82

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4.28. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −11countries joined / left
  • 137values changed, of 146 in both
  • 84 · 53rose · fell
  • 9unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Djibouti+ Suriname+ Syria+ Tonga+ Yemen− Afghanistan− Comoros− Dominican Republic− Grenada− Iran− Kazakhstan− Cambodia− Laos− Myanmar− Solomon Islands− Trinidad and Tobago

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2009.

  • 119 distinct values among 151

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 26 countries share 1.85. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 151 countries has every column.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2009). Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tariff-rate/2009

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