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Economy Statistics > Ease of doing business index (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
# 1   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 175   2006 Time series
# 2   East Timor: 174   2006 Time series
# 3   Guinea-Bissau: 173   2006 Time series
# 4   Chad: 172   2006 Time series
# 5   Congo, Republic of the: 171   2006 Time series
# 6   Eritrea: 170   2006 Time series
# 7   São Tomé and Príncipe: 169   2006 Time series
# 8   Sierra Leone: 168   2006 Time series
# 9   Central African Republic: 167   2006 Time series
# 10   Burundi: 166   2006 Time series
# 11   Egypt: 165   2006 Time series
# 12   Venezuela: 164   2006 Time series
# 13   Burkina Faso: 163   2006 Time series
# 14   Afghanistan: 162   2006 Time series
# 15   Djibouti: 161   2006 Time series
# 16   Niger: 160   2006 Time series
# 17   Laos: 159   2006 Time series
# 18   Rwanda: 158   2006 Time series
# 19   Guinea: 157   2006 Time series
# 20   Angola: 156   2006 Time series
# 21   Mali: 155   2006 Time series
# 22   Sudan: 154   2006 Time series
# 23   Zimbabwe: 153   2006 Time series
# 24   Cameroon: 152   2006 Time series
# 25   Togo: 151   2006 Time series
# 26   Equatorial Guinea: 150   2006 Time series
# 27   Madagascar: 149   2006 Time series
# 28   Mauritania: 148   2006 Time series
# 29   Uzbekistan: 147   2006 Time series
# 30   Senegal: 146   2006 Time series
# 31   Iraq: 145   2006 Time series
# 32   Comoros: 144   2006 Time series
# 33   Cambodia: 143   2006 Time series
# 34   Tanzania: 142   2006 Time series
# 35   Côte d'Ivoire: 141   2006 Time series
# 36   Mozambique: 140   2006 Time series
# 37   Haiti: 139   2006 Time series
# 38   Bhutan: 138   2006 Time series
# 39   Benin: 137   2006 Time series
# 40   Guyana: 136   2006 Time series
# 41   Indonesia: 135   2006 Time series
# 42   India: 134   2006 Time series
# 43   Tajikistan: 133   2006 Time series
# 44   Gabon: 132   2006 Time series
# 45   Bolivia: 131   2006 Time series
# 46   Syria: 130   2006 Time series
# 47   Belarus: 129   2006 Time series
# 48   Ukraine: 128   2006 Time series
# 49   Philippines: 126   2006 Time series
# 50   Cape Verde: 125   2006 Time series
# 51   Croatia: 124   2006 Time series
# 52   Ecuador: 123   2006 Time series
# 53   Suriname: 122   2006 Time series
# 54   Brazil: 121   2006 Time series
# 55   Albania: 120   2006 Time series
# 56   Iran: 119   2006 Time series
# 57   Guatemala: 118   2006 Time series
# 58   Dominican Republic: 117   2006 Time series
# 59   Algeria: 116   2006 Time series
# 60   Morocco: 115   2006 Time series
# 61   Lesotho: 114   2006 Time series
# 62   Gambia, The: 113   2006 Time series
# 63   Paraguay: 112   2006 Time series
# 64   Honduras: 111   2006 Time series
# 65   Malawi: 110   2006 Time series
# 66   Greece: 109   2006 Time series
# 67   Nigeria: 108   2006 Time series
# 68   Uganda: 107   2006 Time series
# 69   Micronesia, Federated States of: 106   2006 Time series
# 70   Costa Rica: 105   2006 Time series
# 71   Vietnam: 104   2006 Time series
# 72   Moldova: 103   2006 Time series
# 73   Zambia: 102   2006 Time series
# 74   Argentina: 101   2006 Time series
# 75   Nepal: 100   2006 Time series
# 76   Azerbaijan: 99   2006 Time series
# 77   Yemen: 98   2006 Time series
# 78   Ethiopia: 97   2006 Time series
# 79   Russia: 96   2006 Time series
# 80   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 95   2006 Time series
# 81   Ghana: 94   2006 Time series
# 82   China: 93   2006 Time series
# 83   Macedonia, Republic of: 92   2006 Time series
# 84   Turkey: 91   2006 Time series
# 85   Kyrgyzstan: 90   2006 Time series
# 86   Sri Lanka: 89   2006 Time series
# 87   Bangladesh: 88   2006 Time series
# 88   Marshall Islands: 87   2006 Time series
# 89   Lebanon: 86   2006 Time series
# 90   Saint Kitts and Nevis: 85   2006 Time series
# 91   Seychelles: 84   2006 Time series
# 92   Kenya: 83   2006 Time series
# 93   Italy: 82   2006 Time series
# 94   Panama: 81   2006 Time series
# 95   Tunisia: 80   2006 Time series
# 96   Colombia: 79   2006 Time series
# 97   Jordan: 78   2006 Time series
# 98   United Arab Emirates: 77   2006 Time series
# 99   Swaziland: 76   2006 Time series
# 100   Poland: 75   2006 Time series
# 101   Pakistan: 74   2006 Time series
# 102   Grenada: 73   2006 Time series
# 103   Dominica: 72   2006 Time series
# 104   El Salvador: 71   2006 Time series
# 105   Solomon Islands: 69   2006 Time series
# 106   Nicaragua: 67   2006 Time series
# 107   Hungary: 66   2006 Time series
# 108   Peru: 65   2006 Time series
# 109   Uruguay: 64   2006 Time series
# 110   Kazakhstan: 63   2006 Time series
# 111   Palau: 62   2006 Time series
# 112   Slovenia: 61   2006 Time series
# 113   Kiribati: 60   2006 Time series
# 114   Trinidad and Tobago: 59   2006 Time series
# 115   Vanuatu: 58   2006 Time series
# 116   Papua New Guinea: 57   2006 Time series
# 117   Belize: 56   2006 Time series
# 118   Oman: 55   2006 Time series
# 119   Bulgaria: 54   2006 Time series
# 120   Maldives: 53   2006 Time series
# 121   Czech Republic: 52   2006 Time series
# 122   Tonga: 51   2006 Time series
# 123   Jamaica: 50   2006 Time series
# 124   Romania: 49   2006 Time series
# 125   Botswana: 48   2006 Time series
# 126   Kuwait: 46   2006 Time series
# 127   Mongolia: 45   2006 Time series
# 128   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 44   2006 Time series
# 129   Mexico: 43   2006 Time series
# 130   Namibia: 42   2006 Time series
# 131   Samoa: 41   2006 Time series
# 132   Portugal: 40   2006 Time series
# 133   Spain: 39   2006 Time series
# 134   Saudi Arabia: 38   2006 Time series
# 135   Georgia: 37   2006 Time series
# 136   Slovakia: 36   2006 Time series
# 137   France: 35   2006 Time series
# 138   Armenia: 34   2006 Time series
# 139   Antigua and Barbuda: 33   2006 Time series
# 140   Mauritius: 32   2006 Time series
# 141   Fiji: 31   2006 Time series
# 142   Austria: 30   2006 Time series
# 143   South Africa: 29   2006 Time series
# 144   Chile: 28   2006 Time series
# 145   Saint Lucia: 27   2006 Time series
# 146   Israel: 26   2006 Time series
# 147   Malaysia: 25   2006 Time series
# 148   Latvia: 24   2006 Time series
# 149   Korea, South: 23   2006 Time series
# 150   Netherlands: 22   2006 Time series
# 151   Germany: 21   2006 Time series
# 152   Belgium: 20   2006 Time series
# 153   Puerto Rico: 19   2006 Time series
# 154   Thailand: 18   2006 Time series
# 155   Estonia: 17   2006 Time series
# 156   Lithuania: 16   2006 Time series
# 157   Switzerland: 15   2006 Time series
# 158   Finland: 14   2006 Time series
# 159   Sweden: 13   2006 Time series
# 160   Iceland: 12   2006 Time series
# 161   Japan: 11   2006 Time series
# 162   Ireland: 10   2006 Time series
# 163   Norway: 9   2006 Time series
# 164   Australia: 8   2006 Time series
# 165   Denmark: 7   2006 Time series
# 166   United Kingdom: 6   2006 Time series
# 167   Hong Kong: 5   2006 Time series
# 168   Canada: 4   2006 Time series
# 169   United States: 3   2006 Time series
# 170   New Zealand: 2   2006 Time series
# 171   Singapore: 1   2006 Time series
Weighted average: 88.2   



DEFINITION: Ease of doing business index ranks economies from 1 to 175, with first place being the best. A high ranking means that the regulatory environment is conducive to business operation. The index ranks the simple average of the country’s percentile rankings on 10 topics covered in Doing Business 2007: How to reform. The ranking on each topic is the simple average of the percentile rankings on its component indicators.

SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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