Business Ready: Regulatory Framework

Regulatory framework score (0–100)·Higher is better — rank 1 leads·Published by World Bank Group

We hold the 2024 edition of this indicator, covering 50 countries.

1 edition (2024), covering 50 economies. How good a country’s rules are on paper — whether the regulations a business meets when starting up, hiring, trading and paying tax are clear, proportionate and actually written down. ⚠ 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. Its three cross-cutting pillars are therefore three indicators here rather than one composite; averaging them would be our number wearing the Bank’s name. ⚠ COVERAGE IS A ROLLOUT, NOT A RANKING OF THE WORLD: the 2024 edition scores 50 economies, far short of the ~180 most indicators here cover, and later editions are expected to widen. Read it as a partial picture. ⚠ No rank is published, so none is stored; the POSITION shown on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score, and labelled as ours.