Hot countries 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	Marshall Islands	2,093.05	2012
2	Kiribati	1,160.88	2012
3	Grenada	966.98	2012
4	Dominica	962.56	2012
5	Seychelles	877.14	2012
6	Antigua and Barbuda	741	2012
7	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	685.73	2012
8	Tonga	571.75	2012
9	Saint Lucia	326.2	2012
10	Belize	320.93	2012
11	Suriname	308.68	2012
12	Barbados	296.59	2012
13	Samoa	291.18	2012
14	Cape Verde	258.9	2012
15	Maldives	239.33	2012
16	Comoros	223	2012
17	Equatorial Guinea	222.74	2012
18	The Bahamas	204.32	2012
19	Djibouti	200.08	2012
20	Brunei	191.64	2012
21	Solomon Islands	167.4	2012
22	Guyana	142.07	2012
23	Guinea-Bissau	108.8	2012
24	Gabon	103.52	2012
25	Swaziland	97.48	2012
26	Fiji	66.31	2012
27	Trinidad and Tobago	47.1	2012
28	Mauritania	45.05	2012
29	Bahrain	35.66	2012
30	Liberia	35.56	2012
31	Jamaica	33.55	2012
32	Botswana	32.44	2012
33	Kuwait	31.07	2012
34	Libya	30.55	2012
35	Eritrea	30.17	2012
36	Laos	24.53	2012
37	Togo	23.94	2012
38	Sierra Leone	22.91	2012
39	Costa Rica	22.68	2012
40	Qatar	21.95	2012
41	Nicaragua	20.53	2012
42	El Salvador	18.26	2012
43	Benin	17.41	2012
44	Haiti	17.4	2012
45	Panama	16.04	2012
46	Paraguay	16	2012
47	Honduras	15.75	2012
48	Guinea	15.63	2012
49	Mauritius	15.49	2012
50	Chad	15.18	2012
51	Papua New Guinea	15.07	2012
52	Bolivia	15.05	2012
53	Oman	13.28	2012
54	Senegal	12.82	2012
55	Zimbabwe	12.24	2012
56	Dominican Republic	10.9	2012
57	Mali	10.3	2012
58	Niger	10.14	2012
59	Malawi	10.12	2012
60	Burkina Faso	9.36	2012
61	Cambodia	9.08	2012
62	Cote d'Ivoire	8.72	2012
63	Ecuador	8.65	2012
64	Angola	8.55	2012
65	Cameroon	7.47	2012
66	Madagascar	6.46	2012
67	Zambia	6.39	2012
68	Guatemala	6.17	2012
69	Venezuela	6.01	2012
70	Mozambique	5.63	2012
71	Yemen	5.41	2012
72	Iraq	4.76	2012
73	Sri Lanka	4.08	2012
74	Algeria	3.92	2012
75	Sudan	3.84	2012
76	Uganda	3.47	2012
77	Burma	3.45	2012
78	Tanzania	2.85	2012
79	Kenya	2.83	2012
80	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.79	2012
81	Ghana	2.44	2012
82	Egypt	1.57	2012
83	Philippines	1.38	2012
84	Ethiopia	1.35	2012
85	Vietnam	1.1	2012
86	Colombia	0.88	2012
87	Bangladesh	0.853	2012
88	Nigeria	0.817	2012
89	Saudi Arabia	0.778	2012
90	Brazil	0.594	2012
91	Pakistan	0.592	2012
92	Indonesia	0.47	2012
93	Australia	0.441	2012
94	Mexico	0.422	2012
95	Hong Kong	0.28	2012
96	Malaysia	0.274	2012
97	Thailand	0.27	2012
98	Singapore	0.188	2012
99	India	0.106	2012

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