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🏭 Firms that use a third party to resolve commercial disputes

Percentage of firms that use courts, arbitration, mediation, or conciliation to resolve or attempt to resolve their commercial disputes.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
97.2% – 66.6%64.2% – 57.5%55.9% – 47.9%47.4% – 41.6%41.3% – 0.0%No data
1
🇧🇳Brunei
97.2%
2
🇬🇳Guinea
97.1%
3
🇰🇪Kenya
91.8%
4
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
88.4%
5
🇩🇯Djibouti
71.6%
6
🇱🇹Lithuania
71.2%
7
🇹🇭Thailand
70.0%
8
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
70.0%
9
🇨🇿Czechia
69.6%
10
🇧🇪Belgium
68.6%
11
🇵🇦Panama
67.9%
12
🇬🇩Grenada
66.7%
13
🇦🇹Austria
66.6%
14
🇵🇱Poland
64.2%
15
🇪🇹Ethiopia
63.8%
16
🇳🇬Nigeria
63.5%
17
🇩🇪Germany
63.4%
18
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
63.1%
19
🇬🇦Gabon
62.1%
20
🇪🇬Egypt
60.2%
21
🇰🇮Kiribati
59.3%
22
🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
58.7%
23
🇱🇷Liberia
58.6%
24
🇫🇷France
57.8%
25
🇦🇺Australia
57.5%
26
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
55.9%
27
🇧🇿Belize
55.7%
28
🇫🇯Fiji
55.1%
29
🇲🇷Mauritania
53.6%
30
🇰🇼Kuwait
53.3%
31
🇲🇳Mongolia
48.9%
32
🇧🇷Brazil
48.8%
33
🇬🇹Guatemala
48.8%
34
🇮🇳India
48.2%
35
🇺🇬Uganda
48.2%
36
🇲🇿Mozambique
48.1%
37
🇲🇼Malawi
47.9%
38
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
47.4%
39
🇳🇱Netherlands
46.7%
40
🇩🇰Denmark
44.4%
41
🇸🇷Suriname
44.4%
42
🇰🇲Comoros
44.2%
43
🇨🇱Chile
42.1%
44
🇲🇻Maldives
42.1%
45
🇳🇪Niger
42.0%
46
🇦🇱Albania
41.9%
47
🇨🇭Switzerland
41.9%
48
🇳🇴Norway
41.6%
49
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
41.6%
50
🇧🇮Burundi
41.3%

Highlights

As of 2025, Brunei ranks first with 97.2%, followed by Guinea (97.1%) and Kenya (91.8%).

The top two are virtually level: Brunei and Guinea differ by less than 1%.

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 97.2% (Brunei) to 0.0% (Qatar), with a median of 48.9%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 3 from Europe, 2 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms that use a third party to resolve commercial disputes (% of firms), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms that use a third party to resolve commercial disputes (% of firms) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026