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🏭 Firms competing against unregistered firms

Percentage of firms competing against unregistered or informal firms.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
82.9% – 62.9%61.6% – 50.8%50.4% – 37.0%36.6% – 21.6%19.3% – 1.9%No data
1
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
82.9%
2
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
80.0%
3
🇬🇳Guinea
78.6%
4
🇰🇲Comoros
77.8%
5
🇧🇴Bolivia
75.3%
6
🇺🇬Uganda
70.6%
7
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
66.8%
8
🇦🇱Albania
65.3%
9
🇳🇪Niger
64.8%
10
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
64.0%
11
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
63.6%
12
🇬🇦Gabon
63.2%
13
🇬🇹Guatemala
62.9%
14
🇧🇷Brazil
61.6%
15
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
60.0%
16
🇲🇼Malawi
58.0%
17
🇸🇷Suriname
56.7%
18
🇱🇷Liberia
56.4%
19
🇳🇬Nigeria
56.4%
20
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
56.1%
21
🇰🇪Kenya
54.1%
22
🇧🇿Belize
54.0%
23
🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
54.0%
24
🇲🇿Mozambique
53.1%
25
🇰🇮Kiribati
50.8%
26
🇲🇳Mongolia
50.4%
27
🇨🇱Chile
48.8%
28
🇵🇦Panama
48.8%
29
🇫🇯Fiji
48.1%
30
🇧🇳Brunei
45.6%
31
🇿🇲Zambia
43.9%
32
🇦🇫Afghanistan
43.8%
33
🇲🇷Mauritania
43.1%
34
🇪🇬Egypt
41.1%
35
🇸🇴Somalia
40.9%
36
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
39.2%
37
🇦🇺Australia
37.0%
38
🇬🇩Grenada
36.6%
39
🇱🇹Lithuania
34.6%
40
🇲🇻Maldives
33.7%
41
🇩🇯Djibouti
30.3%
42
🇹🇭Thailand
29.8%
43
🇵🇱Poland
29.7%
44
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
27.5%
45
🇧🇮Burundi
26.4%
46
🇩🇰Denmark
26.0%
47
🇨🇿Czechia
25.8%
48
🇪🇹Ethiopia
24.5%
49
🇳🇴Norway
21.6%
50
🇫🇷France
19.3%

Highlights

As of 2025, Zimbabwe ranks first with 82.9%, followed by Guinea-Bissau (80.0%) and Guinea (78.6%).

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 82.9% (Zimbabwe) to 1.9% (Qatar), with a median of 43.9%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Africa, 2 from the Americas and 1 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms competing against unregistered firms (% of firms), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms competing against unregistered firms (% of firms) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026