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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.

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Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, 2024
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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.

Every year of Business Ready: Regulatory Framework held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, 202450—September 6, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of Business Ready: Regulatory Framework: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—500
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—500
Regulatory framework score (0–100)bready_regulatory_frameworkHeadlineThe headline figure: Regulatory framework score (0–100).Number · up to 13 decimals46.21Timor-Leste78.34Hungarymiddle 66.80500

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.

All regions
Countries in each year of Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, by continent.
2024
Africa15
Americas7
Asia14
Europe11
Oceania3
All50

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.

AfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArmeniaArubaAustraliaAustriaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBelarusBelgiumBelizeBeninBermudaBhutanBoliviaBrazilBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurkina FasoBurundiCabo VerdeCameroonCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChileChinaComorosCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkDjiboutiDominicaDominican RepublicDR CongoEcuadorEgyptEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaFaroe IslandsFijiFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGabonGermanyGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuatemalaGuineaGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiHondurasIcelandIndiaIranIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanJordanKazakhstanKenyaKiribatiKosovoKuwaitLaosLatviaLebanonLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMalawiMalaysiaMaldivesMaliMaltaMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMoldovaMonacoMongoliaMontserratMozambiqueMyanmarNamibiaNauruNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNicaraguaNigerNigeriaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPalauPanamaPapua New GuineaPolandPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of the CongoRussiaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSaudi ArabiaSenegalSerbiaSint MaartenSloveniaSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSouth SudanSpainSri LankaSudanSurinameSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTaiwanTajikistanThailandTongaTrinidad and TobagoTunisiaTürkiyeTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUgandaUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsUruguayUzbekistanVatican CityVenezuelaYemenZambiaZimbabwe

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

  2. 2 · Their file

    Business Ready: Regulatory Framework 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per year

  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 5, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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.

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