East Asia and Pacific Compared by Economy > Companies > Ease of doing business index > 1=most business-friendly regulations

DEFINITION: Ease of doing business index (1=most business-friendly regulations). Ease of doing business ranks economies from 1 to 189, with first place being the best. A high ranking (a low numerical rank) means that the regulatory environment is conducive to business operation. The index averages the country's percentile rankings on 10 topics covered in the World Bank's Doing Business. The ranking on each topic is the simple average of the percentile rankings on its component indicators.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Burma	182	2013
2	East Timor	172	2013
3	Laos	159	2013
4	Federated States of Micronesia	156	2013
5	Cambodia	137	2013
6	Kiribati	122	2013
7	Indonesia	120	2013
8	Marshall Islands	114	2013
9	Papua New Guinea	113	2013
10	Philippines	108	2013
11	Palau	100	2013
12	Vietnam	99	2013
13	Solomon Islands	97	2013
14	China	96	2013
15	Mongolia	76	2013
16	Vanuatu	74	2013
17	Fiji	62	2013
18	Samoa	61	2013
19	Brunei	59	2013
20	Tonga	57	2013
21	Japan	27	2013
22	Thailand	18	2013
23	Australia	11	2013
24	South Korea	7	2013
25	Malaysia	6	2013
26	New Zealand	3	2013
27	Singapore	1	2013

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