Dataset · World Bank Group
Business Ready: Regulatory Framework
Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, 2024 · 50 countries
Business Ready: Regulatory Framework scores how good a country’s business rules are on paper — whether the regulations a firm meets when starting up, hiring, trading and paying tax are clear, proportionate and actually written down. It is one of three pillars in the World Bank’s replacement for Doing Business.
This site holds one year, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Business Ready: Regulatory Framework · the file
- Newest
- Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, 2024
- Held
- 1 year · 50 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One year
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, 2024 | 50 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: bready-regulatory-framework-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 50 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 50 | 0 | |
Regulatory framework score (0–100)bready_regulatory_frameworkHeadline | The headline figure: Regulatory framework score (0–100). | Number · up to 13 decimals | 46.21 | 50 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
0350 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 15 |
| Americas | 7 |
| Asia | 14 |
| Europe | 11 |
| Oceania | 3 |
| All | 50 |
One year, covering 50 countries.
Not in this dataset · 175 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Business Ready: Regulatory Framework 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per year
It downloads as a CSV: bready-regulatory-framework-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 13 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From the World Bank’s B-READY 2024 dataset. B-READY publishes no overall country score, deliberately — a break from the Doing Business ranking it replaced, which the Bank withdrew after its data was found to have been manipulated — so its three pillars are three indicators here rather than one composite.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 5, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, 2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/bready-regulatory-framework
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Business Ready (B-READY). Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Business Ready: Regulatory Framework: questions and answers
What is the Business Ready: Regulatory Framework?
Business Ready: Regulatory Framework scores how good a country’s business rules are on paper — whether the regulations a firm meets when starting up, hiring, trading and paying tax are clear, proportionate and actually written down. It is one of three pillars in the World Bank’s replacement for Doing Business.
Which years of the Business Ready: Regulatory Framework can I download?
One: Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, 2024, as a CSV file.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.