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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1  El Salvador:81 
#2  Mexico:81 
#3  Panama:81 
#4  Venezuela:78 
#5  Chad:78 
#6  Greece:78 
#7  Brazil:78 
#8  Thailand:78 
#9  Guinea:78 
#10  Spain:76 
#11  Croatia:76 
#12  Indonesia:76 
#13  Portugal:76 
#14  Italy:76 
#15  Mozambique:73 
#16  Tunisia:73 
#17  Finland:71 
#18  Peru:71 
#19  Azerbaijan:71 
#20  Belarus:71 
#21  Angola:71 
#22  Kyrgyzstan:71 
#23  Argentina:71 
#24  Moldova:71 
#25  Lithuania:71 
#26  Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:65 
#27  Pakistan:65 
#28  France:63 
#29  Germany:63 
#30  Mauritania:62 
#31  Turkey:58 
#32  Oman:58 
#33  Latvia:58 
#34  Paraguay:58 
#35  Guatemala:58 
#36  Algeria:58 
#37  Haiti:58 
#38  Uruguay:58 
#39  Lesotho:58 
#40  Burundi:58 
#41  Norway:58 
#42  Costa Rica:58 
#43  Philippines:58 
#44  Ethiopia:58 
#45  Ukraine:58 
#46  Bolivia:58 
#47  Tanzania:57 
#48  Morocco:56 
#49  Chile:56 
#50  Sierra Leone:56 
#51  Sweden:56 
#52  Lebanon:53 
#53  Slovenia:53 
#54  Burkina Faso:53 
#55  Niger:53 
#56  Bosnia and Herzegovina:53 
#57  Rwanda:53 
#58  Central African Republic:53 
#59  Togo:53 
#60  Mali:53 
#61  Armenia:51 
#62  Serbia and Montenegro:51 
#63  Netherlands:51 
#64  Georgia:51 
#65  Ireland:48 
#66  Cameroon:48 
#67  Madagascar:48 
#68  Romania:48 
#69  Senegal:48 
#70  Benin:48 
#71  Uzbekistan:46 
#72  Hungary:46 
#73  Bulgaria:43 
#74  Vietnam:43 
#75  South Africa:42 
#76  Japan:39 
#77  Ecuador:37 
#78  Slovakia:34 
#79  Russia:33 
#80  Jordan:33 
#81  United States:33 
#82  Kuwait:33 
#83  Switzerland:33 
#84  Mongolia:33 
#85  Honduras:33 
#86  Malaysia:33 
#87  Singapore:33 
#88  Nicaragua:33 
#89  Uganda:33 
#90  Poland:33 
#91  Zimbabwe:33 
#92  Albania:33 
#93  India:33 
#94  Australia:33 
#95  Jamaica:33 
#96  Austria:33 
#97  Kenya:33 
#98  Botswana:33 
#99  Kazakhstan:33 
#100  Belgium:33 
#101  Malawi:33 
#102  Bangladesh:33 
#103  Nepal:33 
#104  Canada:33 
#105  New Zealand:33 
#106  Cambodia:33 
#107  Puerto Rico:33 
#108  Sri Lanka:33 
#109  Saudi Arabia:33 
#110  Colombia:33 
#111  Syria:33 
#112  Denmark:33 
#113  United Arab Emirates:33 
#114  Dominican Republic:33 
#115  United Kingdom:33 
#116  Ghana:33 
#117  Zambia:33 
#118  Israel:33 
#119  Papua New Guinea:17 
#120  Czech Republic:17 
#121  China:17 
#122  Nigeria:17 
#123  Namibia:17 
Weighted average: 49.7  


DEFINITION: Nations are listed with a Flexibility of Hiring Index between 1 and 100. The higher the index, the more the nation in question regulates the hiring process.

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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