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🏢 B-READY Market Competition — Pillar 3: Implementation of Key Services Promoting Market Competition

B-READY: Market Competition Pillar 3: Implementation of Key Services Promoting 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
🇮🇸Iceland
71.8
2
🇮🇪Ireland
70.5
3
🇧🇭Bahrain
68.8
4
🇪🇸Spain
68.5
5
🇸🇪Sweden
68.1
6
🇲🇹Malta
67.1
7
🇸🇮Slovenia
66.9
8
🇵🇪Peru
65.2
9
🇮🇹Italy
65.0
10
🇭🇰Hong Kong
64.9
11
🇲🇩Moldova
64.6
12
🇧🇪Belgium
64.5
13
🇲🇰North Macedonia
64.3
14
🇨🇷Costa Rica
63.5
15
🇪🇨Ecuador
62.7
16
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea
62.1
17
🇱🇻Latvia
61.6
18
🇺🇾Uruguay
61.3
19
🇪🇪Estonia
61.0
20
🇼🇸Samoa
61.0
21
🇷🇼Rwanda
60.6
22
🇦🇲Armenia
60.5
23
🇰🇷South Korea
60.4
24
🇲🇺Mauritius
59.9
25
🇳🇿New Zealand
58.6
26
🇳🇦Namibia
57.8
27
🇭🇺Hungary
57.7
28
🇷🇸Serbia
57.6
29
🇸🇰Slovakia
57.3
30
🇸🇬Singapore
57.3
31
🇯🇴Jordan
57.2
32
🇨🇦Canada
56.5
33
🇨🇿Czechia
55.6
34
🇭🇷Croatia
54.5
35
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
53.7
36
🇲🇾Malaysia
53.4
37
🇷🇴Romania
53.3
38
🇬🇧United Kingdom
53.1
39
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
50.5
40
🇨🇴Colombia
50.2
41
🇬🇪Georgia
49.9
42
🇧🇼Botswana
49.3
43
🇮🇱Israel
49.3
44
🇨🇾Cyprus
49.3
45
🇬🇷Greece
49.2
46
🇵🇹Portugal
49.2
47
🇹🇷Türkiye
48.8
48
🇸🇨Seychelles
48.0
49
🇻🇳Vietnam
47.9
50
🇵🇭Philippines
47.7

Highlights

As of 2025, Iceland ranks first with 71.8, followed by Ireland (70.5) and Bahrain (68.8).

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 71.8 (Iceland) to 22.4 (Timor-Leste), with a median of 47.3.

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 Pillar 3: Implementation of Key Services Promoting Market Competition, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Market Competition Pillar 3: Implementation of Key Services Promoting Market Competition · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026