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🏭 Firms where largest owner is also the top manager

Percent of firms where the largest owner is also the top manager.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
96.9% – 84.0%84.0% – 81.7%81.6% – 76.9%76.6% – 70.2%67.5% – 31.4%No data
1
🇵🇦Panama
96.9%
2
🇰🇮Kiribati
93.1%
3
🇧🇴Bolivia
91.8%
4
🇦🇫Afghanistan
90.5%
5
🇸🇷Suriname
90.5%
6
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
90.0%
7
🇵🇱Poland
89.9%
8
🇺🇬Uganda
89.3%
9
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
88.9%
10
🇦🇱Albania
86.9%
11
🇧🇷Brazil
86.2%
12
🇧🇿Belize
85.3%
13
🇨🇱Chile
84.0%
14
🇧🇳Brunei
84.0%
15
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
83.9%
16
🇫🇷France
83.7%
17
🇲🇻Maldives
83.3%
18
🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
83.2%
19
🇰🇪Kenya
83.2%
20
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
83.0%
21
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
82.8%
22
🇪🇬Egypt
82.7%
23
🇲🇳Mongolia
82.6%
24
🇫🇯Fiji
82.3%
25
🇲🇼Malawi
81.7%
26
🇧🇪Belgium
81.6%
27
🇯🇵Japan
81.6%
28
🇪🇹Ethiopia
81.3%
29
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
81.2%
30
🇹🇭Thailand
80.2%
31
🇸🇴Somalia
79.1%
32
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
79.0%
33
🇲🇿Mozambique
78.1%
34
🇨🇭Switzerland
78.1%
35
🇱🇹Lithuania
78.0%
36
🇬🇩Grenada
77.2%
37
🇦🇺Australia
76.9%
38
🇩🇪Germany
76.6%
39
🇰🇲Comoros
76.2%
40
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
75.2%
41
🇨🇿Czechia
74.8%
42
🇬🇹Guatemala
74.3%
43
🇱🇷Liberia
74.2%
44
🇿🇲Zambia
72.0%
45
🇫🇮Finland
71.7%
46
🇦🇹Austria
71.1%
47
🇳🇱Netherlands
70.6%
48
🇩🇰Denmark
70.5%
49
🇲🇷Mauritania
70.2%
50
🇳🇪Niger
67.5%

Highlights

As of 2025, Panama ranks first with 96.9%, followed by Kiribati (93.1%) and Bolivia (91.8%).

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 96.9% (Panama) to 31.4% (Zimbabwe), with a median of 79.1%.

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

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms where largest owner is also the top manager (% of firms), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms where largest owner is also the top manager (% of firms) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026