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🏢 B-READY Labor — Pillar 1: Quality of Labor Regulations

B-READY: Labor Pillar 1: Quality of Labor Regulations. 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
🇷🇸Serbia
91.3
2
🇵🇹Portugal
91.2
3
🇲🇹Malta
90.4
4
🇰🇷South Korea
88.6
5
🇸🇮Slovenia
85.4
6
🇪🇸Spain
85.3
7
🇦🇴Angola
85.0
8
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
84.8
9
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
84.8
10
🇧🇪Belgium
84.5
11
🇵🇱Poland
84.2
12
🇨🇿Czechia
83.4
13
🇭🇷Croatia
83.4
14
🇧🇩Bangladesh
83.2
15
🇲🇩Moldova
83.0
16
🇨🇦Canada
82.4
17
🇬🇷Greece
82.3
18
🇲🇰North Macedonia
81.9
19
🇲🇾Malaysia
81.8
20
🇷🇴Romania
81.8
21
🇳🇦Namibia
81.4
22
🇧🇬Bulgaria
81.4
23
🇹🇷Türkiye
80.8
24
🇸🇰Slovakia
80.8
25
🇭🇺Hungary
80.2
26
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
79.8
27
🇮🇪Ireland
79.7
28
🇮🇱Israel
79.5
29
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
79.3
30
🇸🇳Senegal
78.9
31
🇬🇧United Kingdom
78.2
32
🇵🇭Philippines
77.7
33
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
77.1
34
🇮🇸Iceland
77.0
35
🇻🇳Vietnam
76.8
36
🇺🇾Uruguay
76.2
37
🇰🇭Cambodia
76.1
38
🇨🇻Cape Verde
75.5
39
🇨🇷Costa Rica
75.1
40
🇲🇪Montenegro
75.0
41
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
74.3
42
🇸🇿Eswatini
73.9
43
🇺🇸United States
73.7
44
🇮🇹Italy
73.7
45
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
73.6
46
🇪🇪Estonia
73.3
47
🇹🇿Tanzania
73.1
48
🇧🇼Botswana
72.9
49
🇧🇧Barbados
72.5
50
🇦🇲Armenia
72.3

Highlights

As of 2025, Serbia ranks first with 91.3, followed by Portugal (91.2) and Malta (90.4).

The top two are virtually level: Serbia and Portugal differ by less than 1%.

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 91.3 (Serbia) to 38.3 (Tonga), with a median of 72.0.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Europe, 2 from Asia and 1 from Africa.

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

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