Europe Compared by Economy > Companies > Ease of doing business index > 1=most business-friendly regulations per million

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. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	San Marino	2,368.23	2012
2	Malta	239.03	2012
3	Luxembourg	105.37	2012
4	Montenegro	80.5	2012
5	Kosovo	53.15	2012
6	Iceland	40.61	2012
7	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.91	2012
8	Cyprus	33.66	2012
9	Albania	25.93	2012
10	Moldova	24.16	2012
11	Croatia	20.62	2012
12	Republic of Macedonia	17.1	2012
13	Estonia	15.68	2012
14	Slovenia	15.06	2012
15	Armenia	13.47	2012
16	Serbia	12.04	2012
17	Latvia	11.85	2012
18	Lithuania	8.37	2012
19	Slovakia	7.95	2012
20	Greece	7.89	2012
21	Bulgaria	7.8	2012
22	Azerbaijan	7.64	2012
23	Belarus	6.76	2012
24	Czech Republic	6.47	2012
25	Hungary	5.23	2012
26	Romania	3.42	2012
27	Switzerland	3.38	2012
28	Austria	3.31	2012
29	Ireland	3.27	2012
30	Ukraine	3.07	2012
31	Belgium	2.87	2012
32	Portugal	2.75	2012
33	Finland	2.22	2012
34	Georgia	1.99	2012
35	Netherlands	1.79	2012
36	Sweden	1.47	2012
37	Norway	1.39	2012
38	Poland	1.25	2012
39	Italy	1.1	2012
40	Spain	0.995	2012
41	Turkey	0.973	2012
42	Denmark	0.894	2012
43	Russia	0.773	2012
44	France	0.533	2012
45	Germany	0.232	2012
46	United Kingdom	0.174	2012

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