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The Childcare topic legal frameworks score measures laws that regulate the availability, public financing, and quality of childcare services. It is calculated as the unweighted average of the indicator scores in the topic and rescaled to a 0–100 scale, where 0 represents the lowest possible score and 100 the highest possible score. For details on underlying questions and scoring assumptions, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf).
As of 2025, Australia ranks first with 100.0, followed by Austria (100.0) and Belarus (100.0).
The top two are virtually level: Australia and Austria differ by less than 1%.
Across 188 countries and territories, values run from 100.0 (Australia) to 0.0 (Zimbabwe), with a median of 50.0.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Europe, 3 from the Americas, 1 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Legal Framework, Childcare, Score (scale 0-100), 2025. Unit: scale 0-100.
Source: World Bank Open Data — WBL: Legal Framework, Childcare, Score (scale 0-100) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026