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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.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Chad	189	2013
2	Libya	187	2013
3	Eritrea	184	2013
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	183	2013
5	Burma	182	2013
6	Venezuela	181	2013
7	Guinea-Bissau	180	2013
8	Angola	179	2013
9	Senegal	178	2013
10	Haiti	177	2013
11	Niger	176	2013
12	Guinea	175	2013
13	Benin	174	2013
14	Mauritania	173	2013
15	Malawi	171	2013
16	Zimbabwe	170	2013
17	Cameroon	168	2013
18	Cote d'Ivoire	167	2013
19	Equatorial Guinea	166	2013
20	Gabon	163	2013
21	Bolivia	162	2013
22	Suriname	161	2013
23	Djibouti	160	2013
24	Laos	159	2013
25	Comoros	158	2013
26	Togo	157	2013
27	Mali	155	2013
28	Burkina Faso	154	2013
29	Algeria	153	2013
30	Iraq	151	2013
31	Sudan	149	2013
32	Madagascar	148	2013
33	Nigeria	147	2013
34	Tanzania	145	2013
35	Liberia	144	2013
36	Sierra Leone	142	2013
37	Mozambique	139	2013
38	Cambodia	137	2013
39	Ecuador	135	2013
40	India	134	2013
41	Yemen	133	2013
42	Uganda	132	2013
43	Bangladesh	130	2013
44	Kenya	129	2013
45	Egypt	128	2013
46	Honduras	127	2013
47	Ethiopia	125	2013
48	Nicaragua	124	2013
49	Swaziland	123	2013
50	Kiribati	122	2013
51	Cape Verde	121	2013
52	Indonesia	120	2013
53	El Salvador	118	2013
54	Dominican Republic	117	2013
55	Brazil	116	2013
56	Guyana	115	2013
57	Marshall Islands	114	2013
58	Papua New Guinea	113	2013
59	Pakistan	110	2013
60	Paraguay	109	2013
61	Philippines	108	2013
62	Grenada	107	2013
63	Belize	106	2013
64	Kuwait	104	2013
65	Costa Rica	102	2013
66	Vietnam	99	2013
67	Solomon Islands	97	2013
68	Maldives	95	2013
69	Jamaica	94	2013
70	Barbados	91	2013
71	Sri Lanka	85	2013
72	The Bahamas	84	2013
73	Zambia	83	2013
74	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	82	2013
75	Seychelles	80	2013
76	Guatemala	79	2013
77	Dominica	77	2013
78	Antigua and Barbuda	71	2013
79	Ghana	67	2013
80	Trinidad and Tobago	66	2013
81	Saint Lucia	64	2013
82	Fiji	62	2013
83	Samoa	61	2013
84	Brunei	59	2013
85	Tonga	57	2013
86	Botswana	56	2013
87	Panama	55	2013
88	Mexico	53	2013
89	Qatar	48	2013
90	Oman	47	2013
91	Bahrain	46	2013
92	Colombia	43	2013
93	Saudi Arabia	26	2013
94	Mauritius	20	2013
95	Thailand	18	2013
96	Australia	11	2013
97	Malaysia	6	2013
98	Hong Kong	2	2013
99	Singapore	1	2013

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