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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	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,810.24	2012
2	Grenada	966.98	2012
3	Dominica	962.56	2012
4	Sao Tome and Principe	882.52	2012
5	Seychelles	877.14	2012
6	Antigua and Barbuda	741	2012
7	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	685.73	2012
8	Saint Lucia	326.2	2012
9	Belize	320.93	2012
10	Barbados	296.59	2012
11	Cape Verde	258.9	2012
12	Malta	239.03	2012
13	Iceland	40.61	2012
14	Cyprus	33.66	2012
15	Jamaica	33.55	2012
16	Eritrea	30.17	2012
17	Lebanon	23.73	2012
18	Jordan	18.84	2012
19	Zimbabwe	12.24	2012
20	Serbia	12.04	2012
21	Malawi	10.12	2012
22	Puerto Rico	10.09	2012
23	Greece	7.89	2012
24	Hungary	5.23	2012
25	Israel	4.17	2012
26	Sri Lanka	4.08	2012
27	Sudan	3.84	2012
28	Austria	3.31	2012
29	Ireland	3.27	2012
30	Morocco	2.92	2012
31	Belgium	2.87	2012
32	Portugal	2.75	2012
33	Netherlands	1.79	2012
34	Egypt	1.57	2012
35	Italy	1.1	2012
36	Spain	0.995	2012
37	France	0.533	2012
38	Canada	0.487	2012
39	Germany	0.232	2012
40	Singapore	0.188	2012
41	Japan	0.18	2012
42	United Kingdom	0.174	2012
43	United States	0.0127	2012

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