Welcome to the 2007 LPI! The LPI is an interactive benchmarking tool created to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in their performance on trade logistics and what they can do to improve their performance – the LPI allow for comparisons across 150 countries.

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The Logistics Performance Index is based on a survey of operators on the ground worldwide (global freight forwarders and express carriers), providing feedback on the logistics “friendliness” of the countries in which they operate and those with which they trade. They combine in-depth knowledge of the countries in which they operate with informed perceptions of other countries with which they trade, and experience of global logistics environment. Feedback from operators is supplemented with objective data on the performance of key components of the logistics chain in the home country, data collected for 100 countries. A copy of the questionnaire (PDF, 208KB) can be downloaded here.

The LPI consists therefore of both perception and objective measures and helps build profiles of logistics friendliness for these countries. It measures performance along the logistics supply chain within a country and has three parts:

• Perceptions of the logistics environment of trading partner countries
• Information on the logistics environment in the home country of operation
• Real time-cost performance data for country of operation

The LPI is available in three different modes:

 Country Scorecard uses seven key dimensions to benchmark countries performance and also displays the derived overall LPI index. The scorecard allows comparisons with the World (with the option to display World best performer) and with the Region or income group (with the option to display the Region’s or income group best performer) on the 7 key dimensions and the overall LPI index.

 Global LPI Ranking presents performance scores of all countries on the overall LPI index, as well as on the seven key dimensions, in a sortable table format. World Map provides a color-coded map for the global view of the overall LPI index and the seven key dimensions.

 Cross-Country Comparison allows bar-chart comparison of up to 20 countries on their overall LPI index and seven key dimensions.

The survey was designed and administered by the World Bank International Trade and Transport Departments in cooperation with the Turku School of Economics in Finland (TSE, Finland). It was endorsed and promoted by the Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade (GFP). The Survey would not have been possible without the active support and participation of the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) and the Global Express Association (GEA).