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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	Palau	5,492.92	2012
2	San Marino	2,368.23	2012
3	Marshall Islands	2,093.05	2012
4	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,810.24	2012
5	Federated States of Micronesia	1,450.75	2012
6	Kiribati	1,160.88	2012
7	Grenada	966.98	2012
8	Dominica	962.56	2012
9	Sao Tome and Principe	882.52	2012
10	Seychelles	877.14	2012
11	Antigua and Barbuda	741	2012
12	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	685.73	2012
13	Tonga	571.75	2012
	East Asia and Pacific average (profile)	445.38	2012
14	Saint Lucia	326.2	2012
15	Belize	320.93	2012
16	Vanuatu	315.45	2012
17	Suriname	308.68	2012
18	Barbados	296.59	2012
	Catholic countries average (profile)	295.79	2012
19	Samoa	291.18	2012
20	Cape Verde	258.9	2012
21	Maldives	239.33	2012
22	Malta	239.03	2012
23	Comoros	223	2012
24	Equatorial Guinea	222.74	2012
	Latin America and Caribbean average (profile)	220.39	2012
25	The Bahamas	204.32	2012
	Heavily indebted countries average (profile)	200.94	2012
26	Djibouti	200.08	2012
27	Bhutan	196.81	2012
28	Brunei	191.64	2012
	Christian countries average (profile)	169.55	2012
29	Solomon Islands	167.4	2012
	Former British colonies average (profile)	144.25	2012
30	Guyana	142.07	2012
31	East Timor	137.99	2012
	Hot countries average (profile)	128.06	2012
32	Guinea-Bissau	108.8	2012
33	Luxembourg	105.37	2012
34	Gabon	103.52	2012
35	Swaziland	97.48	2012
36	The Gambia	82.63	2012
	Landlocked countries average (profile)	82.53	2012
37	Montenegro	80.5	2012
	Sub-Saharan Africa average (profile)	76.48	2012
	Europe average (profile)	69.7	2012
38	Lesotho	67.75	2012
39	Fiji	66.31	2012
40	Kosovo	53.15	2012
41	Trinidad and Tobago	47.1	2012
42	Mauritania	45.05	2012
43	Republic of the Congo	42.89	2012
44	Namibia	41.6	2012
45	Central African Republic	41.32	2012
	South and Central Asia average (profile)	40.81	2012
	South Asia average (profile)	40.81	2012
46	Iceland	40.61	2012
47	Bahrain	35.66	2012
48	Liberia	35.56	2012
49	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.91	2012
50	Cyprus	33.66	2012
51	Jamaica	33.55	2012
	Potential Future EU Members average (profile)	33.03	2012
52	Botswana	32.44	2012
	Muslim countries average (profile)	31.72	2012
53	Kuwait	31.07	2012
54	Libya	30.55	2012
55	Eritrea	30.17	2012
56	Mongolia	28.61	2012
57	Albania	25.93	2012
	Former French colonies average (profile)	25.76	2012
	Eurozone average (profile)	25.31	2012
58	Uruguay	25.03	2012
59	Laos	24.53	2012
60	Moldova	24.16	2012
61	Togo	23.94	2012
62	Lebanon	23.73	2012
63	Sierra Leone	22.91	2012
64	Costa Rica	22.68	2012
65	Qatar	21.95	2012
	Former Spanish colonies average (profile)	21.72	2012
66	Croatia	20.62	2012
67	Nicaragua	20.53	2012
68	Jordan	18.84	2012
69	El Salvador	18.26	2012
	European Union average (profile)	18.26	2012
70	Tajikistan	17.61	2012
71	Benin	17.41	2012
72	Haiti	17.4	2012
	failed states average (profile)	17.35	2012
73	Republic of Macedonia	17.1	2012
74	South Sudan	16.98	2012
	Eastern Europe average (profile)	16.56	2012
75	Panama	16.04	2012
76	Paraguay	16	2012
77	Burundi	15.94	2012
78	Honduras	15.75	2012
79	Estonia	15.68	2012
80	Guinea	15.63	2012
81	Mauritius	15.49	2012
	Cold countries average (profile)	15.33	2012
82	Chad	15.18	2012
83	Papua New Guinea	15.07	2012
84	Slovenia	15.06	2012
85	Bolivia	15.05	2012
86	Armenia	13.47	2012
87	Oman	13.28	2012
88	Senegal	12.82	2012
89	Kyrgyzstan	12.54	2012
90	Zimbabwe	12.24	2012
91	Serbia	12.04	2012
	Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile)	11.92	2012
92	Latvia	11.85	2012
	NATO countries average (profile)	11.03	2012
93	Dominican Republic	10.9	2012
94	Mali	10.3	2012
	OPEC countries average (profile)	10.29	2012
95	Niger	10.14	2012
96	Malawi	10.12	2012
97	Puerto Rico	10.09	2012
	Former Soviet republics average (profile)	9.45	2012
98	Burkina Faso	9.36	2012
99	Cambodia	9.08	2012
100	Cote d'Ivoire	8.72	2012
101	Ecuador	8.65	2012
102	Angola	8.55	2012
103	Lithuania	8.37	2012
	Religious countries average (profile)	8.13	2012
104	Slovakia	7.95	2012
105	Greece	7.89	2012
106	Bulgaria	7.8	2012
107	Azerbaijan	7.64	2012
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	7.57	2012
108	Cameroon	7.47	2012
109	Belarus	6.76	2012
110	Syria	6.56	2012
111	Czech Republic	6.47	2012
112	Madagascar	6.46	2012
113	Zambia	6.39	2012
114	Guatemala	6.17	2012
115	Venezuela	6.01	2012
116	Afghanistan	5.7	2012
117	Mozambique	5.63	2012
118	Yemen	5.41	2012
119	Uzbekistan	5.24	2012
120	Hungary	5.23	2012
121	Iraq	4.76	2012
122	Rwanda	4.71	2012
123	Tunisia	4.55	2012
124	Israel	4.17	2012
125	Sri Lanka	4.08	2012
126	Algeria	3.92	2012
127	Sudan	3.84	2012
128	Nepal	3.75	2012
129	Uganda	3.47	2012
130	Burma	3.45	2012
131	Romania	3.42	2012
132	Switzerland	3.38	2012
133	Austria	3.31	2012
134	Ireland	3.27	2012
135	Kazakhstan	3.16	2012
136	Ukraine	3.07	2012
	Emerging markets average (profile)	3.06	2012
137	Argentina	2.94	2012
138	Morocco	2.92	2012
139	Belgium	2.87	2012
140	Tanzania	2.85	2012
141	Kenya	2.83	2012
142	United Arab Emirates	2.82	2012
143	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.79	2012
144	Portugal	2.75	2012
145	Ghana	2.44	2012
146	Finland	2.22	2012
147	Georgia	1.99	2012
148	Iran	1.99	2012
149	Chile	1.95	2012
	Non-religious countries average (profile)	1.9	2012
150	Netherlands	1.79	2012
151	Egypt	1.57	2012
152	Sweden	1.47	2012
153	Norway	1.39	2012
154	Philippines	1.38	2012
155	Ethiopia	1.35	2012
156	Peru	1.3	2012
157	Poland	1.25	2012
158	Vietnam	1.1	2012
159	Italy	1.1	2012
160	Spain	0.995	2012
161	Turkey	0.973	2012
162	Denmark	0.894	2012
163	Colombia	0.88	2012
164	Bangladesh	0.853	2012
165	Nigeria	0.817	2012
166	South Africa	0.801	2012
167	Saudi Arabia	0.778	2012
168	Russia	0.773	2012
169	New Zealand	0.677	2012
170	Brazil	0.594	2012
171	Pakistan	0.592	2012
172	France	0.533	2012
173	Canada	0.487	2012
174	Indonesia	0.47	2012
175	Australia	0.441	2012
176	Mexico	0.422	2012
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	0.388	2012
177	Hong Kong	0.28	2012
178	Malaysia	0.274	2012
179	Thailand	0.27	2012
180	Germany	0.232	2012
181	Singapore	0.188	2012
182	Japan	0.18	2012
183	United Kingdom	0.174	2012
184	South Korea	0.12	2012
185	India	0.106	2012
186	European Union	0.0811	2012
187	China	0.0733	2012
188	United States	0.0127	2012

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