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

B-READY: Business Location Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations for Business Location. 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
🇺🇸United States
93.7
2
🇮🇹Italy
93.0
3
🇸🇬Singapore
86.3
4
🇪🇸Spain
85.4
5
🇨🇿Czechia
84.8
6
🇭🇰Hong Kong
83.8
7
🇮🇪Ireland
83.5
8
🇬🇭Ghana
83.5
9
🇵🇱Poland
82.9
10
🇭🇷Croatia
82.8
11
🇸🇰Slovakia
82.3
12
🇰🇷South Korea
81.9
13
🇸🇮Slovenia
81.8
14
🇬🇧United Kingdom
81.7
15
🇵🇹Portugal
81.6
16
🇪🇨Ecuador
80.8
17
🇷🇴Romania
80.6
18
🇱🇻Latvia
80.3
19
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
80.0
20
🇲🇦Morocco
80.0
21
🇬🇪Georgia
79.9
22
🇬🇷Greece
79.5
23
🇧🇬Bulgaria
79.2
24
🇭🇺Hungary
78.7
25
🇵🇪Peru
78.6
26
🇨🇴Colombia
77.7
27
🇲🇱Mali
77.5
28
🇳🇿New Zealand
77.0
29
🇲🇩Moldova
76.5
30
🇮🇱Israel
76.1
31
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
76.0
32
🇪🇪Estonia
75.1
33
🇲🇽Mexico
75.0
34
🇷🇸Serbia
74.7
35
🇸🇪Sweden
74.7
36
🇲🇪Montenegro
74.5
37
🇼🇸Samoa
73.7
38
🇧🇪Belgium
73.5
39
🇯🇴Jordan
73.1
40
🇺🇾Uruguay
73.0
41
🇮🇸Iceland
72.8
42
🇲🇰North Macedonia
72.5
43
🇲🇺Mauritius
72.4
44
🇯🇲Jamaica
72.0
45
🇸🇳Senegal
71.9
46
🇨🇷Costa Rica
71.5
47
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
71.5
48
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
70.5
49
🇵🇰Pakistan
70.1
50
🇧🇯Benin
70.0

Highlights

As of 2025, United States ranks first with 93.7, followed by Italy (93.0) and Singapore (86.3).

The top two are virtually level: United States and Italy differ by less than 1%.

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 93.7 (United States) to 24.7 (South Sudan), with a median of 69.8.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 2 from Asia, 1 from Africa and 1 from the Americas.

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

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