High income OECD countries Compared by Economy > Companies > Ease of doing business index > 1=most business-friendly regulations per million

DEFINITION: Ease of doing business index (1=most business-friendly regulations). Ease of doing business ranks economies from 1 to 189, with first place being the best. A high ranking (a low numerical rank) means that the regulatory environment is conducive to business operation. The index averages the country's percentile rankings on 10 topics covered in the World Bank's Doing Business. The ranking on each topic is the simple average of the percentile rankings on its component indicators. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Luxembourg	105.37	2012
2	Iceland	40.61	2012
3	Estonia	15.68	2012
4	Slovenia	15.06	2012
5	Slovakia	7.95	2012
6	Greece	7.89	2012
7	Czech Republic	6.47	2012
8	Israel	4.17	2012
9	Switzerland	3.38	2012
10	Austria	3.31	2012
11	Ireland	3.27	2012
12	Belgium	2.87	2012
13	Portugal	2.75	2012
14	Finland	2.22	2012
15	Chile	1.95	2012
16	Netherlands	1.79	2012
17	Sweden	1.47	2012
18	Norway	1.39	2012
19	Poland	1.25	2012
20	Italy	1.1	2012
21	Spain	0.995	2012
22	Denmark	0.894	2012
23	New Zealand	0.677	2012
24	France	0.533	2012
25	Canada	0.487	2012
26	Australia	0.441	2012
27	Germany	0.232	2012
28	Japan	0.18	2012
29	United Kingdom	0.174	2012
30	South Korea	0.12	2012
31	United States	0.0127	2012

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