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🏢 B-READY Market Competition — Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations that Promote Market Competition

B-READY: Market Competition Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations that Promote Market Competition. 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
🇪🇸Spain
84.3
2
🇰🇷South Korea
82.1
3
🇷🇴Romania
76.0
4
🇮🇹Italy
74.4
5
🇷🇸Serbia
72.9
6
🇱🇻Latvia
71.7
7
🇭🇷Croatia
70.3
8
🇧🇬Bulgaria
70.3
9
🇵🇱Poland
69.9
10
🇲🇪Montenegro
68.6
11
🇬🇧United Kingdom
67.9
12
🇭🇺Hungary
67.8
13
🇲🇩Moldova
67.7
14
🇬🇷Greece
67.2
15
🇵🇪Peru
66.6
16
🇸🇮Slovenia
66.1
17
🇲🇦Morocco
66.1
18
🇲🇺Mauritius
65.9
19
🇮🇩Indonesia
65.7
20
🇨🇿Czechia
64.7
21
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
64.2
22
🇮🇱Israel
63.8
23
🇧🇪Belgium
63.8
24
🇨🇴Colombia
63.8
25
🇵🇭Philippines
63.8
26
🇵🇹Portugal
63.5
27
🇹🇿Tanzania
63.3
28
🇪🇨Ecuador
63.2
29
🇲🇰North Macedonia
62.5
30
🇲🇱Mali
62.0
31
🇹🇬Togo
61.4
32
🇸🇰Slovakia
61.1
33
🇦🇲Armenia
60.2
34
🇪🇪Estonia
59.9
35
🇹🇷Türkiye
59.8
36
🇵🇾Paraguay
59.6
37
🇭🇰Hong Kong
59.6
38
🇨🇷Costa Rica
59.6
39
🇺🇸United States
59.3
40
🇸🇳Senegal
59.3
41
🇸🇬Singapore
58.6
42
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
58.4
43
🇸🇻El Salvador
58.4
44
🇵🇰Pakistan
58.1
45
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
58.0
46
🇻🇳Vietnam
57.9
47
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
57.8
48
🇲🇹Malta
57.7
49
🇷🇼Rwanda
57.7
50
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
57.4

Highlights

As of 2025, Spain ranks first with 84.3, followed by South Korea (82.1) and Romania (76.0).

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 84.3 (Spain) to 20.1 (Timor-Leste), with a median of 57.3.

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

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

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