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🏢 B-READY Utility Services — Pillar 2: Quality of Governance and Transparency of Utility Services

B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 2: Quality of Governance and Transparency of 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
99.2
2
🇭🇺Hungary
98.2
3
🇱🇻Latvia
96.6
4
🇳🇿New Zealand
96.6
5
🇨🇴Colombia
95.2
6
🇸🇰Slovakia
94.8
7
🇧🇪Belgium
94.7
8
🇨🇦Canada
94.6
9
🇪🇸Spain
93.9
10
🇭🇰Hong Kong
92.1
11
🇬🇷Greece
91.7
12
🇪🇪Estonia
91.4
13
🇺🇸United States
90.7
14
🇬🇧United Kingdom
90.6
15
🇭🇷Croatia
89.9
16
🇲🇾Malaysia
89.6
17
🇵🇱Poland
89.5
18
🇨🇷Costa Rica
89.0
19
🇬🇪Georgia
88.8
20
🇮🇱Israel
88.8
21
🇧🇭Bahrain
88.5
22
🇮🇪Ireland
88.2
23
🇸🇪Sweden
88.0
24
🇮🇹Italy
87.9
25
🇻🇳Vietnam
87.7
26
🇸🇮Slovenia
87.0
27
🇵🇭Philippines
85.9
28
🇷🇴Romania
85.7
29
🇸🇬Singapore
85.2
30
🇨🇿Czechia
83.8
31
🇮🇸Iceland
83.6
32
🇵🇪Peru
83.5
33
🇵🇹Portugal
83.2
34
🇹🇷Türkiye
83.2
35
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
80.0
36
🇧🇧Barbados
79.9
37
🇨🇾Cyprus
79.7
38
🇧🇬Bulgaria
79.6
39
🇲🇰North Macedonia
79.4
40
🇧🇯Benin
79.3
41
🇯🇴Jordan
78.7
42
🇷🇼Rwanda
78.6
43
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
77.7
44
🇲🇽Mexico
76.9
45
🇹🇿Tanzania
75.9
46
🇱🇸Lesotho
75.0
47
🇹🇬Togo
74.8
48
🇦🇲Armenia
74.1
49
🇲🇪Montenegro
72.9
50
🇪🇨Ecuador
72.4

Highlights

As of 2025, South Korea ranks first with 99.2, followed by Hungary (98.2) and Latvia (96.6).

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 99.2 (South Korea) to 12.5 (South Sudan), with a median of 71.7.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Europe, 2 from the Americas, 2 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 2: Quality of Governance and Transparency of Utility Services, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 2: Quality of Governance and Transparency of Utility Services · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026