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🏢 B-READY International Trade — Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations for International Trade

B-READY: International Trade Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations for International Trade. 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
🇸🇰Slovakia
84.8
2
🇲🇩Moldova
84.2
3
🇸🇪Sweden
83.5
4
🇧🇪Belgium
83.4
5
🇪🇪Estonia
83.4
6
🇪🇸Spain
83.4
7
🇨🇿Czechia
81.0
8
🇮🇪Ireland
80.2
9
🇵🇹Portugal
80.2
10
🇵🇾Paraguay
79.9
11
🇭🇰Hong Kong
79.9
12
🇬🇷Greece
79.7
13
🇮🇹Italy
79.7
14
🇬🇧United Kingdom
79.6
15
🇱🇻Latvia
78.8
16
🇲🇽Mexico
78.1
17
🇨🇾Cyprus
78.1
18
🇭🇷Croatia
77.9
19
🇭🇺Hungary
77.8
20
🇧🇬Bulgaria
77.0
21
🇬🇪Georgia
76.9
22
🇪🇨Ecuador
76.6
23
🇲🇹Malta
75.7
24
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
75.5
25
🇸🇬Singapore
75.1
26
🇧🇭Bahrain
74.7
27
🇺🇸United States
74.4
28
🇸🇮Slovenia
74.3
29
🇵🇱Poland
74.3
30
🇸🇻El Salvador
74.2
31
🇷🇸Serbia
73.4
32
🇰🇷South Korea
73.2
33
🇨🇷Costa Rica
72.9
34
🇲🇰North Macedonia
72.8
35
🇺🇾Uruguay
72.7
36
🇵🇪Peru
72.6
37
🇷🇴Romania
72.0
38
🇦🇲Armenia
71.3
39
🇳🇿New Zealand
69.3
40
🇮🇸Iceland
68.6
41
🇨🇴Colombia
67.8
42
🇲🇱Mali
67.8
43
🇮🇱Israel
67.6
44
🇲🇦Morocco
67.5
45
🇨🇦Canada
67.4
46
🇧🇼Botswana
66.9
47
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
65.9
48
🇹🇳Tunisia
65.8
49
🇼🇸Samoa
65.4
50
🇰🇭Cambodia
64.9

Highlights

As of 2025, Slovakia ranks first with 84.8, followed by Moldova (84.2) and Sweden (83.5).

The top two are virtually level: Slovakia and Moldova differ by less than 1%.

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 84.8 (Slovakia) to 27.6 (Angola), with a median of 64.7.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 9 from Europe and 1 from the Americas.

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

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