Countries setting minimum standards for debt collection

Binary indicator: 1 indicates yes; 0 indicates no. World Bank indicator.

📅 2017📏 yes/no (1=yes)118 entries

Asia · 34

Africa · 26

Europe · 31

Americas · 22

Oceania · 5

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (yes/no (1=yes)); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇦🇫Afghanistan

Yes

🇦🇴Angola

Yes

🇦🇺Australia

Yes

🇧🇪Belgium

Yes

🇧🇴Bolivia

Yes

🇧🇷Brazil

Yes

🇧🇬Bulgaria

Yes

🇨🇦Canada

Yes

🇨🇱Chile

Yes

🇨🇴Colombia

Yes

🇭🇷Croatia

Yes

🇩🇯Djibouti

Yes

🇪🇨Ecuador

Yes

🇸🇻El Salvador

Yes

🇪🇪Estonia

Yes

🇸🇿Eswatini

Yes

🇫🇯Fiji

Yes

🇫🇮Finland

Yes

🇩🇪Germany

Yes

🇬🇷Greece

Yes

🇬🇹Guatemala

Yes

🇭🇹Haiti

Yes

🇭🇳Honduras

Yes

🇭🇰Hong Kong

Yes

🇭🇺Hungary

Yes

🇮🇳India

Yes

🇮🇩Indonesia

Yes

🇮🇷Iran

Yes

🇮🇶Iraq

Yes

🇮🇱Israel

Yes

🇮🇹Italy

Yes

🇯🇵Japan

Yes

🇯🇴Jordan

Yes

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

Yes

🇰🇪Kenya

Yes

🇰🇼Kuwait

Yes

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

Yes

🇱🇻Latvia

Yes

🇱🇧Lebanon

Yes

🇱🇸Lesotho

Yes

🇱🇷Liberia

Yes

🇱🇺Luxembourg

Yes

🇲🇼Malawi

Yes

🇲🇾Malaysia

Yes

🇲🇷Mauritania

Yes

🇲🇽Mexico

Yes

🇲🇪Montenegro

Yes

🇲🇦Morocco

Yes

🇳🇦Namibia

Yes

🇳🇱Netherlands

Yes

Highlights

As of 2017, Afghanistan ranks first with Yes, followed by Angola (Yes) and Australia (Yes).

The top two are virtually level: Afghanistan and Angola differ by less than 1%.

Across 118 countries and territories, values run from Yes (Afghanistan) to No (Zambia), with a median of Yes.

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, 2017. Unit: yes/no (1=yes).

Source: World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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