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🏢 B-READY Business Entry — Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations for Business Entry

B-READY: Business Entry Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations for Business Entry. World Bank B-READY assesses the business environment in 100 economies; higher scores are better.

📅 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
🇦🇲Armenia
100.0
2
🇸🇿Eswatini
96.3
3
🇷🇼Rwanda
96.1
4
🇯🇲Jamaica
95.0
5
🇸🇬Singapore
94.4
6
🇬🇷Greece
93.7
7
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
93.1
8
🇷🇸Serbia
92.8
9
🇲🇹Malta
92.3
10
🇲🇪Montenegro
92.2
11
🇵🇰Pakistan
91.7
12
🇮🇪Ireland
91.1
13
🇬🇧United Kingdom
91.1
14
🇺🇸United States
91.0
15
🇲🇩Moldova
90.3
16
🇹🇯Tajikistan
89.4
17
🇼🇸Samoa
89.2
18
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
89.2
19
🇷🇴Romania
88.9
20
🇨🇿Czechia
88.7
21
🇱🇸Lesotho
88.1
22
🇲🇦Morocco
87.5
23
🇲🇰North Macedonia
87.3
24
🇵🇹Portugal
87.3
25
🇨🇾Cyprus
86.7
26
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
86.0
27
🇧🇼Botswana
85.9
28
🇱🇻Latvia
85.8
29
🇪🇨Ecuador
85.7
30
🇸🇰Slovakia
85.1
31
🇳🇵Nepal
85.0
32
🇹🇳Tunisia
84.8
33
🇨🇴Colombia
84.7
34
🇬🇭Ghana
84.7
35
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
83.7
36
🇹🇿Tanzania
83.4
37
🇻🇺Vanuatu
82.8
38
🇮🇹Italy
82.3
39
🇭🇷Croatia
81.7
40
🇬🇲Gambia
81.1
41
🇧🇪Belgium
81.1
42
🇲🇬Madagascar
81.0
43
🇺🇾Uruguay
80.8
44
🇮🇱Israel
80.6
45
🇲🇺Mauritius
80.4
46
🇹🇬Togo
80.1
47
🇵🇾Paraguay
80.0
48
🇬🇪Georgia
80.0
49
🇪🇪Estonia
79.8
50
🇲🇾Malaysia
79.8

Highlights

As of 2025, Armenia ranks first with 100.0, followed by Eswatini (96.3) and Rwanda (96.1).

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 100.0 (Armenia) to 38.8 (Congo), with a median of 79.6.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Europe, 3 from Asia, 2 from Africa and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Business Entry Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations for Business Entry, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Business Entry Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations for Business Entry · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026