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🏢 B-READY Utility Services — Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations on Utility Services

B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations on Utility Services. 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
97.4
2
🇭🇷Croatia
95.5
3
🇸🇬Singapore
95.2
4
🇵🇹Portugal
94.3
5
🇱🇻Latvia
94.1
6
🇻🇳Vietnam
93.6
7
🇭🇺Hungary
93.6
8
🇬🇷Greece
92.4
9
🇪🇸Spain
92.1
10
🇵🇱Poland
91.3
11
🇷🇼Rwanda
90.9
12
🇨🇾Cyprus
90.8
13
🇮🇪Ireland
89.8
14
🇺🇸United States
89.7
15
🇵🇭Philippines
89.6
16
🇨🇴Colombia
89.6
17
🇬🇪Georgia
89.4
18
🇸🇰Slovakia
88.9
19
🇪🇪Estonia
88.0
20
🇧🇧Barbados
87.4
21
🇧🇪Belgium
87.2
22
🇸🇮Slovenia
87.1
23
🇨🇦Canada
86.5
24
🇹🇷Türkiye
86.5
25
🇧🇭Bahrain
86.3
26
🇧🇬Bulgaria
86.3
27
🇮🇹Italy
85.9
28
🇧🇯Benin
85.6
29
🇹🇳Tunisia
84.5
30
🇲🇪Montenegro
84.1
31
🇲🇾Malaysia
83.9
32
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
83.6
33
🇦🇲Armenia
83.0
34
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
82.8
35
🇲🇩Moldova
81.7
36
🇨🇿Czechia
81.5
37
🇲🇰North Macedonia
81.5
38
🇬🇧United Kingdom
81.1
39
🇷🇴Romania
81.0
40
🇨🇷Costa Rica
80.3
41
🇨🇲Cameroon
79.9
42
🇳🇦Namibia
79.7
43
🇲🇱Mali
79.4
44
🇲🇦Morocco
79.3
45
🇪🇨Ecuador
76.7
46
🇸🇪Sweden
75.7
47
🇨🇻Cape Verde
75.5
48
🇨🇩DR Congo
75.1
49
🇯🇴Jordan
75.1
50
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
75.0

Highlights

As of 2025, South Korea ranks first with 97.4, followed by Croatia (95.5) and Singapore (95.2).

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 97.4 (South Korea) to 12.8 (South Sudan), with a median of 74.9.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Europe and 3 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations on Utility Services, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 1: Quality of Regulations on Utility Services · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026