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🏢 B-READY Market Competition — Overall Score

B-READY: Market Competition: Overall Score. 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
🇰🇷South Korea
78.1
2
🇪🇸Spain
72.2
3
🇮🇹Italy
70.7
4
🇭🇰Hong Kong
69.7
5
🇬🇧United Kingdom
69.5
6
🇭🇺Hungary
68.5
7
🇱🇻Latvia
67.6
8
🇵🇪Peru
67.4
9
🇸🇮Slovenia
65.5
10
🇷🇴Romania
65.3
11
🇲🇩Moldova
65.2
12
🇷🇸Serbia
64.8
13
🇨🇿Czechia
64.8
14
🇧🇪Belgium
64.6
15
🇮🇪Ireland
64.3
16
🇨🇷Costa Rica
64.0
17
🇸🇬Singapore
63.8
18
🇸🇰Slovakia
63.3
19
🇭🇷Croatia
63.3
20
🇧🇬Bulgaria
63.2
21
🇮🇱Israel
62.5
22
🇪🇪Estonia
62.3
23
🇲🇰North Macedonia
61.9
24
🇬🇷Greece
61.9
25
🇸🇪Sweden
61.6
26
🇵🇱Poland
61.3
27
🇨🇴Colombia
60.8
28
🇵🇭Philippines
60.4
29
🇵🇹Portugal
60.1
30
🇲🇦Morocco
60.0
31
🇲🇺Mauritius
59.7
32
🇪🇨Ecuador
59.6
33
🇺🇸United States
59.5
34
🇨🇦Canada
58.9
35
🇮🇩Indonesia
58.7
36
🇲🇹Malta
58.4
37
🇦🇲Armenia
58.2
38
🇬🇪Georgia
58.1
39
🇹🇷Türkiye
57.9
40
🇳🇿New Zealand
56.9
41
🇲🇪Montenegro
55.2
42
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
55.0
43
🇲🇾Malaysia
54.6
44
🇵🇾Paraguay
54.5
45
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
54.4
46
🇮🇸Iceland
54.2
47
🇷🇼Rwanda
54.0
48
🇺🇾Uruguay
53.1
49
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
52.8
50
🇸🇻El Salvador
52.3

Highlights

As of 2025, South Korea ranks first with 78.1, followed by Spain (72.2) and Italy (70.7).

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 78.1 (South Korea) to 15.3 (Timor-Leste), with a median of 52.1.

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

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Market Competition: Overall Score, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Market Competition: Overall Score · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026