Latin America and Caribbean Compared by Economy > Companies > Ease of doing business index > 1=most business-friendly regulations

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.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Venezuela	181	2013
2	Haiti	177	2013
3	Bolivia	162	2013
4	Suriname	161	2013
5	Ecuador	135	2013
6	Honduras	127	2013
7	Argentina	126	2013
8	Nicaragua	124	2013
9	El Salvador	118	2013
10	Dominican Republic	117	2013
11	Brazil	116	2013
12	Guyana	115	2013
13	Paraguay	109	2013
14	Grenada	107	2013
15	Belize	106	2013
16	Costa Rica	102	2013
17	Saint Kitts and Nevis	101	2013
18	Jamaica	94	2013
19	Barbados	91	2013
20	Uruguay	88	2013
21	The Bahamas	84	2013
22	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	82	2013
23	Guatemala	79	2013
24	Dominica	77	2013
25	Antigua and Barbuda	71	2013
26	Trinidad and Tobago	66	2013
27	Saint Lucia	64	2013
28	Panama	55	2013
29	Mexico	53	2013
30	Colombia	43	2013
31	Peru	42	2013
32	Chile	34	2013

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