Latin America and Caribbean 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	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,810.24	2012
2	Grenada	966.98	2012
3	Dominica	962.56	2012
4	Antigua and Barbuda	741	2012
5	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	685.73	2012
6	Saint Lucia	326.2	2012
7	Belize	320.93	2012
8	Suriname	308.68	2012
9	Barbados	296.59	2012
10	The Bahamas	204.32	2012
11	Guyana	142.07	2012
12	Trinidad and Tobago	47.1	2012
13	Jamaica	33.55	2012
14	Uruguay	25.03	2012
15	Costa Rica	22.68	2012
16	Nicaragua	20.53	2012
17	El Salvador	18.26	2012
18	Haiti	17.4	2012
19	Panama	16.04	2012
20	Paraguay	16	2012
21	Honduras	15.75	2012
22	Bolivia	15.05	2012
23	Dominican Republic	10.9	2012
24	Ecuador	8.65	2012
25	Guatemala	6.17	2012
26	Venezuela	6.01	2012
27	Argentina	2.94	2012
28	Chile	1.95	2012
29	Peru	1.3	2012
30	Colombia	0.88	2012
31	Brazil	0.594	2012
32	Mexico	0.422	2012

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