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🏢 B-READY Taxation — Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Tax Systems in Practice

B-READY: Taxation Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Tax Systems in Practice. 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
🇦🇲Armenia
87.1
2
🇲🇺Mauritius
86.5
3
🇧🇭Bahrain
85.4
4
🇻🇳Vietnam
85.1
5
🇷🇸Serbia
84.7
6
🇻🇺Vanuatu
84.6
7
🇰🇷South Korea
84.3
8
🇱🇦Laos
83.9
9
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
83.9
10
🇰🇭Cambodia
83.7
11
🇲🇩Moldova
82.9
12
🇷🇼Rwanda
81.7
13
🇸🇬Singapore
81.3
14
🇪🇪Estonia
81.2
15
🇧🇬Bulgaria
81.0
16
🇳🇵Nepal
80.9
17
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
80.5
18
🇮🇪Ireland
79.8
19
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
79.4
20
🇨🇲Cameroon
78.5
21
🇯🇴Jordan
77.6
22
🇱🇸Lesotho
77.0
23
🇷🇴Romania
76.8
24
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
76.8
25
🇭🇰Hong Kong
76.7
26
🇵🇾Paraguay
74.8
27
🇭🇺Hungary
74.8
28
🇵🇰Pakistan
74.5
29
🇸🇸South Sudan
74.3
30
🇲🇱Mali
74.0
31
🇨🇻Cape Verde
73.1
32
🇹🇬Togo
73.0
33
🇹🇿Tanzania
72.9
34
🇧🇩Bangladesh
72.7
35
🇲🇽Mexico
72.7
36
🇹🇯Tajikistan
72.5
37
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
72.5
38
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
72.0
39
🇵🇸Palestine
71.6
40
🇲🇪Montenegro
71.3
41
🇪🇨Ecuador
70.6
42
🇲🇾Malaysia
69.9
43
🇲🇬Madagascar
69.8
44
🇬🇪Georgia
69.3
45
🇨🇩DR Congo
69.2
46
🇸🇪Sweden
69.1
47
🇭🇷Croatia
68.5
48
🇲🇰North Macedonia
68.0
49
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
68.0
50
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
67.9

Highlights

As of 2025, Armenia ranks first with 87.1, followed by Mauritius (86.5) and Bahrain (85.4).

The top two are virtually level: Armenia and Mauritius differ by less than 1%.

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 87.1 (Armenia) to 21.1 (Spain), with a median of 67.7.

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

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Taxation Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Tax Systems in Practice, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Taxation Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Tax Systems in Practice · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026