Assessing the Efficiency and Potential of China’s Apple Exports

Table 5

Technical efficiency (TE) scores of China’s apple exports (1997–2022).

Countries with less 50% efficiency		Countries with more than 50% efficiency
Country	TE (%)	Country	TE (%)
Bangladesh	0.490	Philippines	0.626
Hong Kong	0.482	Malaysia	0.600
Kazakhstan	0.479	Vietnam	0.593
Russia	0.448	Nepal	0.570
Canada	0.426	Indonesia	0.567
UAE	0.422	Thailand	0.546
Suriname	0.399	Sri Lanka	0.545
Norway	0.396	Singapore	0.523
Mongolia	0.383
Brunei Darussalam	0.372
Macao	0.368
Saudi Arabia	0.366
Bahrain	0.352
Qatar	0.345
Myanmar	0.331
Kenya	0.322
Kyrgyzstan	0.310
Netherlands	0.308
Laos	0.306
Kuwait	0.304
United Kingdom	0.294
Oman	0.285
North Korea	0.269
India	0.265
Spain	0.255
Pakistan	0.238
Ghana	0.218
Cambodia	0.216
Sweden	0.209
USA	0.142
Italy	0.135

Source: authors’ calculations.