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🏢 B-READY Market Competition — Pillar 2: Public Services that Promote Market Competition

B-READY: Market Competition Pillar 2: Public Services 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
🇰🇷South Korea
91.9
2
🇬🇧United Kingdom
87.4
3
🇭🇰Hong Kong
84.7
4
🇭🇺Hungary
79.8
5
🇸🇬Singapore
75.6
6
🇺🇸United States
75.6
7
🇮🇱Israel
74.2
8
🇨🇿Czechia
74.1
9
🇮🇹Italy
72.5
10
🇧🇬Bulgaria
72.3
11
🇲🇦Morocco
72.0
12
🇨🇦Canada
71.5
13
🇸🇰Slovakia
71.3
14
🇮🇩Indonesia
70.4
15
🇵🇪Peru
70.3
16
🇵🇭Philippines
69.7
17
🇱🇻Latvia
69.6
18
🇬🇷Greece
69.4
19
🇨🇷Costa Rica
68.9
20
🇨🇴Colombia
68.5
21
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
68.4
22
🇲🇽Mexico
68.2
23
🇬🇪Georgia
67.8
24
🇵🇹Portugal
67.5
25
🇵🇱Poland
67.3
26
🇸🇪Sweden
67.3
27
🇮🇪Ireland
67.0
28
🇷🇴Romania
66.4
29
🇪🇪Estonia
66.0
30
🇧🇪Belgium
65.4
31
🇹🇷Türkiye
65.3
32
🇭🇷Croatia
64.9
33
🇷🇸Serbia
64.0
34
🇪🇸Spain
63.7
35
🇸🇮Slovenia
63.6
36
🇲🇩Moldova
63.4
37
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
63.3
38
🇳🇿New Zealand
61.9
39
🇲🇾Malaysia
61.2
40
🇵🇾Paraguay
59.2
41
🇲🇰North Macedonia
59.0
42
🇵🇰Pakistan
57.8
43
🇹🇿Tanzania
55.9
44
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
55.2
45
🇲🇪Montenegro
54.7
46
🇦🇲Armenia
54.0
47
🇲🇺Mauritius
53.4
48
🇪🇨Ecuador
52.9
49
🇯🇲Jamaica
52.5
50
🇸🇻El Salvador
52.2

Highlights

As of 2025, South Korea ranks first with 91.9, followed by United Kingdom (87.4) and Hong Kong (84.7).

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 91.9 (South Korea) to 1.2 (Equatorial Guinea), with a median of 51.5.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Europe, 4 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Market Competition Pillar 2: Public Services that Promote Market Competition, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Market Competition Pillar 2: Public Services that Promote Market Competition · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026