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Rank   Countries  Amount 
= 1   El Salvador: 81 
= 1   Mexico: 81 
= 1   Panama: 81 
= 4   Venezuela: 78 
= 4   Chad: 78 
= 4   Greece: 78 
= 4   Brazil: 78 
= 4   Thailand: 78 
= 4   Guinea: 78 
= 10   Spain: 76 
= 10   Croatia: 76 
= 10   Indonesia: 76 
= 10   Portugal: 76 
= 10   Italy: 76 
= 15   Mozambique: 73 
= 15   Tunisia: 73 
= 17   Finland: 71 
= 17   Peru: 71 
= 17   Azerbaijan: 71 
= 17   Belarus: 71 
= 17   Angola: 71 
= 17   Kyrgyzstan: 71 
= 17   Argentina: 71 
= 17   Moldova: 71 
= 17   Lithuania: 71 
= 26   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 65 
= 26   Pakistan: 65 
= 28   France: 63 
= 28   Germany: 63 
# 30   Mauritania: 62 
= 31   Turkey: 58 
= 31   Oman: 58 
= 31   Latvia: 58 
= 31   Paraguay: 58 
= 31   Guatemala: 58 
= 31   Algeria: 58 
= 31   Haiti: 58 
= 31   Uruguay: 58 
= 31   Lesotho: 58 
= 31   Burundi: 58 
= 31   Norway: 58 
= 31   Costa Rica: 58 
= 31   Philippines: 58 
= 31   Ethiopia: 58 
= 31   Ukraine: 58 
= 31   Bolivia: 58 
# 47   Tanzania: 57 
= 48   Morocco: 56 
= 48   Chile: 56 
= 48   Sierra Leone: 56 
= 48   Sweden: 56 
= 52   Lebanon: 53 
= 52   Slovenia: 53 
= 52   Burkina Faso: 53 
= 52   Niger: 53 
= 52   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 53 
= 52   Rwanda: 53 
= 52   Central African Republic: 53 
= 52   Togo: 53 
= 52   Mali: 53 
= 61   Armenia: 51 
= 61   Serbia and Montenegro: 51 
= 61   Netherlands: 51 
= 61   Georgia: 51 
= 65   Ireland: 48 
= 65   Cameroon: 48 
= 65   Madagascar: 48 
= 65   Romania: 48 
= 65   Senegal: 48 
= 65   Benin: 48 
= 71   Uzbekistan: 46 
= 71   Hungary: 46 
= 73   Bulgaria: 43 
= 73   Vietnam: 43 
# 75   South Africa: 42 
# 76   Japan: 39 
# 77   Ecuador: 37 
# 78   Slovakia: 34 
= 79   Russia: 33 
= 79   Jordan: 33 
= 79   United States: 33 
= 79   Kuwait: 33 
= 79   Switzerland: 33 
= 79   Mongolia: 33 
= 79   Honduras: 33 
= 79   Malaysia: 33 
= 79   Singapore: 33 
= 79   Nicaragua: 33 
= 79   Uganda: 33 
= 79   Poland: 33 
= 79   Zimbabwe: 33 
= 79   Albania: 33 
= 79   India: 33 
= 79   Australia: 33 
= 79   Jamaica: 33 
= 79   Austria: 33 
= 79   Kenya: 33 
= 79   Botswana: 33 
= 79   Kazakhstan: 33 
= 79   Belgium: 33 
= 79   Malawi: 33 
= 79   Bangladesh: 33 
= 79   Nepal: 33 
= 79   Canada: 33 
= 79   New Zealand: 33 
= 79   Cambodia: 33 
= 79   Puerto Rico: 33 
= 79   Sri Lanka: 33 
= 79   Saudi Arabia: 33 
= 79   Colombia: 33 
= 79   Syria: 33 
= 79   Denmark: 33 
= 79   United Arab Emirates: 33 
= 79   Dominican Republic: 33 
= 79   United Kingdom: 33 
= 79   Ghana: 33 
= 79   Zambia: 33 
= 79   Israel: 33 
= 119   Papua New Guinea: 17 
= 119   Czech Republic: 17 
= 119   China: 17 
= 119   Nigeria: 17 
= 119   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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