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🏢 B-READY Utility Services — Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Utility Service Provision

B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Utility Service Provision. 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
🇸🇬Singapore
97.9
2
🇰🇷South Korea
97.4
3
🇮🇱Israel
96.6
4
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
94.5
5
🇭🇰Hong Kong
91.9
6
🇮🇩Indonesia
91.7
7
🇧🇭Bahrain
90.5
8
🇹🇷Türkiye
90.0
9
🇲🇦Morocco
89.8
10
🇲🇽Mexico
89.6
11
🇻🇳Vietnam
88.8
12
🇲🇰North Macedonia
88.4
13
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
87.9
14
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
87.1
15
🇵🇹Portugal
86.9
16
🇮🇹Italy
84.9
17
🇺🇸United States
84.7
18
🇲🇾Malaysia
84.2
19
🇱🇻Latvia
83.6
20
🇸🇰Slovakia
82.6
21
🇨🇦Canada
81.7
22
🇪🇸Spain
81.3
23
🇲🇹Malta
81.1
24
🇧🇧Barbados
81.1
25
🇱🇦Laos
80.1
26
🇹🇯Tajikistan
80.0
27
🇧🇬Bulgaria
79.9
28
🇨🇾Cyprus
79.0
29
🇼🇸Samoa
78.9
30
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
78.8
31
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
78.8
32
🇧🇹Bhutan
78.4
33
🇹🇴Tonga
78.4
34
🇨🇴Colombia
78.4
35
🇮🇸Iceland
78.1
36
🇵🇰Pakistan
78.0
37
🇵🇾Paraguay
77.8
38
🇺🇾Uruguay
76.9
39
🇲🇪Montenegro
76.6
40
🇰🇭Cambodia
76.6
41
🇨🇿Czechia
76.5
42
🇬🇷Greece
75.8
43
🇬🇧United Kingdom
75.7
44
🇭🇷Croatia
74.9
45
🇷🇴Romania
74.7
46
🇷🇸Serbia
74.6
47
🇨🇷Costa Rica
74.2
48
🇧🇩Bangladesh
72.9
49
🇹🇿Tanzania
72.6
50
🇸🇳Senegal
72.6

Highlights

As of 2025, Singapore ranks first with 97.9, followed by South Korea (97.4) and Israel (96.6).

The top two are virtually level: Singapore and South Korea differ by less than 1%.

Across 100 countries and territories, values run from 97.9 (Singapore) to 26.6 (Madagascar), with a median of 72.5.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Asia, 1 from Africa and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Utility Service Provision, 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — B-READY: Utility Services Pillar 3: Operational Efficiency of Utility Service Provision · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026