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🏢 B-READY Business Location — Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Establishing a Business Location

B-READY: Business Location Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Establishing a 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
🇧🇹Bhutan
89.5
2
🇬🇪Georgia
89.0
3
🇸🇿Eswatini
86.7
4
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
86.1
5
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
85.9
6
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
85.6
7
🇹🇷Türkiye
85.2
8
🇵🇰Pakistan
84.5
9
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
84.4
10
🇹🇴Tonga
83.6
11
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
83.6
12
🇧🇭Bahrain
83.3
13
🇺🇸United States
83.0
14
🇷🇸Serbia
82.7
15
🇲🇩Moldova
82.6
16
🇮🇩Indonesia
82.5
17
🇳🇿New Zealand
82.1
18
🇸🇻El Salvador
81.4
19
🇸🇬Singapore
81.3
20
🇱🇻Latvia
80.9
21
🇹🇬Togo
80.8
22
🇨🇻Cape Verde
79.5
23
🇱🇦Laos
79.0
24
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
78.8
25
🇨🇷Costa Rica
78.5
26
🇧🇬Bulgaria
78.3
27
🇹🇯Tajikistan
78.1
28
🇱🇸Lesotho
77.8
29
🇲🇪Montenegro
77.3
30
🇪🇪Estonia
77.1
31
🇷🇼Rwanda
75.2
32
🇸🇪Sweden
74.9
33
🇦🇲Armenia
74.8
34
🇭🇺Hungary
73.8
35
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
73.5
36
🇰🇷South Korea
73.5
37
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
73.1
38
🇮🇸Iceland
73.1
39
🇲🇦Morocco
72.9
40
🇮🇹Italy
72.9
41
🇧🇯Benin
72.6
42
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
72.5
43
🇻🇳Vietnam
72.2
44
🇸🇨Seychelles
71.8
45
🇨🇴Colombia
71.4
46
🇷🇴Romania
71.4
47
🇭🇰Hong Kong
71.2
48
🇺🇾Uruguay
71.1
49
🇵🇭Philippines
70.9
50
🇲🇾Malaysia
69.8

Highlights

As of 2025, Bhutan ranks first with 89.5, followed by Georgia (89.0) and Eswatini (86.7).

The top two are virtually level: Bhutan and Georgia differ by less than 1%.

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 89.5 (Bhutan) to 30.0 (Mexico), with a median of 69.6.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia, 1 from Africa, 1 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Business Location Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Establishing a Business Location, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Business Location Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Establishing a Business Location · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026