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🏢 B-READY Labor — Pillar 2: Adequacy of Public Services for Labor

B-READY: Labor Pillar 2: Adequacy of Public Services for Labor. 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
🇭🇷Croatia
88.9
2
🇳🇿New Zealand
88.9
3
🇮🇪Ireland
86.4
4
🇨🇴Colombia
86.1
5
🇲🇺Mauritius
83.3
6
🇲🇰North Macedonia
83.3
7
🇵🇪Peru
83.3
8
🇰🇷South Korea
83.3
9
🇨🇦Canada
83.2
10
🇬🇷Greece
81.2
11
🇵🇱Poland
81.2
12
🇷🇴Romania
81.2
13
🇹🇯Tajikistan
81.0
14
🇭🇰Hong Kong
80.6
15
🇹🇬Togo
80.6
16
🇹🇷Türkiye
80.6
17
🇧🇭Bahrain
79.3
18
🇹🇿Tanzania
78.9
19
🇮🇹Italy
78.4
20
🇪🇸Spain
78.4
21
🇨🇾Cyprus
77.8
22
🇬🇪Georgia
77.8
23
🇸🇰Slovakia
77.8
24
🇸🇪Sweden
77.8
25
🇨🇻Cape Verde
76.4
26
🇸🇳Senegal
76.4
27
🇬🇧United Kingdom
76.2
28
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
75.8
29
🇵🇹Portugal
75.8
30
🇦🇲Armenia
75.6
31
🇨🇿Czechia
75.6
32
🇸🇮Slovenia
75.6
33
🇱🇻Latvia
75.6
34
🇧🇪Belgium
74.4
35
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
73.7
36
🇷🇸Serbia
73.7
37
🇸🇬Singapore
73.6
38
🇨🇷Costa Rica
73.5
39
🇭🇺Hungary
73.3
40
🇲🇩Moldova
73.3
41
🇪🇪Estonia
72.9
42
🇰🇭Cambodia
72.2
43
🇺🇸United States
72.2
44
🇪🇨Ecuador
72.0
45
🇯🇲Jamaica
71.1
46
🇧🇬Bulgaria
70.6
47
🇯🇴Jordan
70.6
48
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
70.6
49
🇲🇹Malta
70.3
50
🇲🇪Montenegro
69.7

Highlights

As of 2025, Croatia ranks first with 88.9, followed by New Zealand (88.9) and Ireland (86.4).

The top two are virtually level: Croatia and New Zealand differ by less than 1%.

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 88.9 (Croatia) to 32.8 (Tonga), with a median of 69.6.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Europe, 3 from the Americas, 1 from Africa, 1 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Labor Pillar 2: Adequacy of Public Services for Labor, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Labor Pillar 2: Adequacy of Public Services for Labor · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026