NationMaster - Regulation (most recent) by country

Rank	Countries	Amount (top to bottom)
#1	Panama:	79
#2	Portugal:	79
#3	Angola:	78
#4	Brazil:	78
#5	Mexico:	77
#6	Belarus:	77
#7	Venezuela:	75
#8	Mozambique:	74
#9	Ukraine:	73
#10	Peru:	73
#11	Paraguay:	73
#12	Spain:	70
#13	El Salvador:	69
#14	Greece:	67
#15	Sierra Leone:	67
#16	Moldova:	67
#17	Chad:	66
#18	Bolivia:	66
#19	Argentina:	66
#20	Guatemala:	65
#21	Croatia:	65
#22	Kyrgyzstan:	64
#23	Lithuania:	64
#24	Azerbaijan:	63
#25	Costa Rica:	63
#26	Latvia:	62
#27	Central African Republic:	62
#28	Burundi:	62
#29	Russia:	61
#30	Madagascar:	61
#31	Slovakia:	61
#32	Nicaragua:	61
#33	Tanzania:	61
#34	Thailand:	61
#35	Philippines:	60
#36	Haiti:	60
#37	Jordan:	60
#38	Rwanda:	60
#39	Guinea:	60
#40	Slovenia:	59
#41	Colombia:	59
#42	Mauritania:	59
#43	Italy:	59
#44	Niger:	59
#45	Pakistan:	58
#46	Tunisia:	57
#47	Indonesia:	57
#48	Armenia:	57
#49	Togo:	57
#50	Serbia and Montenegro:	56
#51	Vietnam:	56
#52	Honduras:	56
#53	Ecuador:	55
#54	Poland:	55
#55	Finland:	55
#56	Kazakhstan:	55
#57	Georgia:	55
#58	Turkey:	55
#59	Uzbekistan:	55
#60	Cambodia:	54
#61	Netherlands:	54
#62	Hungary:	54
#63	Oman:	54
#64	Senegal:	54
#65	Romania:	54
#66	Mali:	54
#67	Bulgaria:	53
#68	Burkina Faso:	53
#69	Benin:	52
#70	Malawi:	52
#71	Ethiopia:	51
#72	Germany:	51
#73	India:	51
#74	Morocco:	51
#75	France:	50
#76	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:	50
#77	Chile:	50
#78	Bangladesh:	50
#79	Mongolia:	50
#80	Bosnia and Herzegovina:	49
#81	Ireland:	49
#82	Dominican Republic:	49
#83	Belgium:	48
#84	China:	47
#85	Algeria:	46
#86	Zambia:	46
#87	Lebanon:	46
#88	Lesotho:	45
#89	United Arab Emirates:	45
#90	Syria:	45
#91	Nepal:	45
#92	Cameroon:	44
#93	Nigeria:	43
#94	Namibia:	43
#95	Uganda:	42
#96	Sweden:	42
#97	Sri Lanka:	42
#98	Puerto Rico:	41
#99	Kuwait:	41
#100	Albania:	41
#101	Norway:	41
#102	Uruguay:	39
#103	Israel:	38
#104	Japan:	37
#105	Australia:	36
#106	Switzerland:	36
#107	Czech Republic:	36
#108	South Africa:	36
#109	Saudi Arabia:	36
#110	Ghana:	35
#111	Botswana:	35
#112	Canada:	34
#113	Jamaica:	34
#114	Kenya:	34
#115	New Zealand:	32
#116	Austria:	30
#117	United Kingdom:	28
#118	Zimbabwe:	27
#119	Papua New Guinea:	26
#120	Malaysia:	25
#121	Denmark:	25
#122	United States:	22
#123	Singapore:	20
	Weighted average:	52.6

DEFINITION: This statistic is an average of "Regulation - Hiring", "Regulation - Firing", and "Regulation - Employment Conditions". Nations are listed with an Employment Laws Index between 1 and 100. The higher the index, the more the nation regulates Employment.

SOURCE: The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.

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