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🏢 B-READY Business Location — Pillar 2: Quality of Public Services and Transparency of Information for Business

B-READY: Business Location Pillar 2: Quality of Public Services and Transparency of Information 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
🇮🇹Italy
84.9
2
🇰🇷South Korea
84.2
3
🇪🇪Estonia
81.2
4
🇸🇬Singapore
74.8
5
🇱🇻Latvia
74.6
6
🇪🇸Spain
72.8
7
🇧🇭Bahrain
71.4
8
🇧🇪Belgium
70.7
9
🇬🇪Georgia
69.6
10
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
69.0
11
🇳🇿New Zealand
68.6
12
🇲🇦Morocco
68.6
13
🇭🇺Hungary
68.6
14
🇷🇼Rwanda
67.2
15
🇹🇷Türkiye
66.7
16
🇨🇿Czechia
66.6
17
🇷🇸Serbia
66.5
18
🇨🇷Costa Rica
66.3
19
🇸🇪Sweden
65.7
20
🇵🇹Portugal
62.9
21
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
62.1
22
🇬🇧United Kingdom
62.0
23
🇦🇲Armenia
61.0
24
🇸🇻El Salvador
60.7
25
🇨🇾Cyprus
59.5
26
🇭🇰Hong Kong
57.9
27
🇮🇸Iceland
57.8
28
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
56.6
29
🇭🇷Croatia
56.5
30
🇺🇸United States
56.4
31
🇮🇪Ireland
55.1
32
🇲🇺Mauritius
54.7
33
🇸🇮Slovenia
53.8
34
🇵🇱Poland
53.4
35
🇲🇰North Macedonia
53.2
36
🇨🇦Canada
52.8
37
🇧🇬Bulgaria
52.4
38
🇲🇾Malaysia
51.8
39
🇪🇨Ecuador
51.5
40
🇮🇩Indonesia
51.4
41
🇮🇱Israel
51.2
42
🇨🇴Colombia
50.7
43
🇷🇴Romania
49.6
44
🇻🇳Vietnam
48.9
45
🇧🇹Bhutan
48.7
46
🇬🇷Greece
48.0
47
🇵🇰Pakistan
47.5
48
🇲🇩Moldova
47.1
49
🇸🇰Slovakia
47.0
50
🇧🇯Benin
46.9

Highlights

As of 2025, Italy ranks first with 84.9, followed by South Korea (84.2) and Estonia (81.2).

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

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 84.9 (Italy) to 0.0 (Equatorial Guinea), with a median of 46.6.

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

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Business Location Pillar 2: Quality of Public Services and Transparency of Information for Business Location, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Business Location Pillar 2: Quality of Public Services and Transparency of Information for Business Location · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026