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World Bank B-READY overall score for tax regulation and administration.

📅 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
🇰🇷South Korea
75.2
2
🇳🇿New Zealand
73.8
3
🇮🇪Ireland
71.2
4
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
70.7
5
🇸🇬Singapore
70.6
6
🇸🇪Sweden
70.5
7
🇧🇬Bulgaria
69.1
8
🇬🇪Georgia
68.9
9
🇪🇪Estonia
68.4
10
🇰🇭Cambodia
68.0
11
🇭🇰Hong Kong
67.8
12
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
67.8
13
🇷🇼Rwanda
67.8
14
🇱🇻Latvia
67.6
15
🇦🇲Armenia
67.5
16
🇲🇺Mauritius
65.4
17
🇲🇩Moldova
65.1
18
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
65.1
19
🇭🇷Croatia
64.8
20
🇨🇦Canada
64.6
21
🇷🇴Romania
64.6
22
🇨🇿Czechia
64.0
23
🇯🇴Jordan
64.0
24
🇲🇽Mexico
63.5
25
🇧🇯Benin
63.4
26
🇸🇰Slovakia
62.1
27
🇷🇸Serbia
61.1
28
🇬🇧United Kingdom
60.6
29
🇵🇭Philippines
60.5
30
🇨🇲Cameroon
60.4
31
🇵🇾Paraguay
60.0
32
🇸🇨Seychelles
59.5
33
🇳🇵Nepal
59.5
34
🇹🇿Tanzania
59.4
35
🇹🇬Togo
59.4
36
🇻🇳Vietnam
59.2
37
🇲🇪Montenegro
58.9
38
🇵🇹Portugal
58.5
39
🇺🇸United States
58.4
40
🇮🇸Iceland
57.4
41
🇬🇷Greece
57.4
42
🇸🇮Slovenia
57.1
43
🇮🇩Indonesia
56.7
44
🇵🇱Poland
56.3
45
🇯🇲Jamaica
55.8
46
🇲🇾Malaysia
55.2
47
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
55.2
48
🇨🇾Cyprus
55.0
49
🇭🇺Hungary
54.9
50
🇧🇭Bahrain
54.6

Highlights

As of 2025, South Korea ranks first with 75.2, followed by New Zealand (73.8) and Ireland (71.2).

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 75.2 (South Korea) to 24.6 (Central African Republic), with a median of 54.6.

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

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

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