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World Bank B-READY overall score for labor regulation and public services.

📅 2025📏 score100 entries
Every dot is one country, placed by its value (score); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.
1
🇲🇹Malta
79.0
2
🇨🇦Canada
78.4
3
🇮🇪Ireland
77.3
4
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
75.1
5
🇭🇷Croatia
74.9
6
🇬🇪Georgia
74.9
7
🇰🇷South Korea
74.5
8
🇭🇰Hong Kong
74.4
9
🇲🇰North Macedonia
74.0
10
🇷🇸Serbia
73.6
11
🇭🇺Hungary
73.5
12
🇹🇿Tanzania
73.4
13
🇬🇧United Kingdom
73.4
14
🇳🇿New Zealand
72.9
15
🇧🇩Bangladesh
72.9
16
🇲🇩Moldova
72.1
17
🇺🇸United States
71.9
18
🇰🇭Cambodia
71.7
19
🇬🇭Ghana
71.5
20
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
71.4
21
🇨🇻Cape Verde
71.1
22
🇸🇳Senegal
70.9
23
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
70.8
24
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
70.5
25
🇵🇭Philippines
70.4
26
🇵🇱Poland
70.3
27
🇲🇺Mauritius
70.0
28
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
69.9
29
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
69.7
30
🇻🇳Vietnam
69.6
31
🇵🇪Peru
69.6
32
🇨🇴Colombia
69.6
33
🇲🇾Malaysia
69.4
34
🇦🇴Angola
69.0
35
🇯🇲Jamaica
68.8
36
🇱🇦Laos
68.8
37
🇪🇸Spain
68.3
38
🇨🇿Czechia
68.0
39
🇸🇮Slovenia
67.7
40
🇵🇹Portugal
67.6
41
🇷🇴Romania
67.5
42
🇸🇰Slovakia
67.2
43
🇪🇪Estonia
67.2
44
🇹🇷Türkiye
67.2
45
🇦🇲Armenia
67.0
46
🇸🇿Eswatini
67.0
47
🇧🇼Botswana
66.9
48
🇸🇪Sweden
66.6
49
🇹🇬Togo
66.3
50
🇹🇯Tajikistan
66.3

Highlights

As of 2025, Malta ranks first with 79.0, followed by Canada (78.4) and Ireland (77.3).

The top two are virtually level: Malta and Canada differ by less than 1%.

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 79.0 (Malta) to 48.5 (South Sudan), with a median of 66.2.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Europe, 4 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Labor: Overall Score, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Labor: Overall Score · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026