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Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2026; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation covers 181 countries. Zimbabwe is highest, at 82.916; Qatar is lowest, at 1.926. The middle country reads 41.714. 9 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Firms Competing Against Informal Firms · Latest available · compiled 2026

HighestZimbabwe

82.916

LowestQatar

1.926

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading, too old to compare90.5032014
2ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2025 reading82.9162025
3Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa · 2025 reading80.0292025
4GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2025 reading78.5812025
5ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2025 reading77.8152025
6Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2023 reading76.5432023
7CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2024 reading75.4152024
8BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2025 reading75.3152025
9ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2023 reading74.8432023
10JamaicaJAMCaribbean · 2024 reading73.4152024
11NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2016 reading72.8862016
12HondurasHNDCentral America · 2016 reading72.4812016
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2024 reading71.6442024
14UgandaUGAEastern Africa · 2025 reading70.6482025
15GambiaGMBWestern Africa · 2023 reading70.4942023
16EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa · 2024 reading69.8442024
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2023 reading69.2842023
18EcuadorECUSouth America · 2024 reading67.7242024
19BahamasBHSCaribbean · 2010 reading, too old to compare67.4632010
20São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2025 reading66.8472025
21Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean · 2010 reading, too old to compare65.4162010
22AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2025 reading65.2862025
23NigerNERWestern Africa · 2025 reading64.7832025
24Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2025 reading63.9632025
25Saint LuciaLCACaribbean · 2025 reading63.6012025

02In Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 2Zimbabwe82.916
  2. 3Guinea-Bissau80.029
  3. 4Guinea78.581
  4. 5Comoros77.815
  5. 6Côte d’Ivoire76.543

Lowest

  1. 181Qatar1.926
  2. 180Austria5.650
  3. 179Germany5.693
  4. 178Japan5.876
  5. 177Tonga7.210

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 41.714. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2026, from 2009 to 2026. 9 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 181 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2026). Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/firms-informal-competition/2026

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06Questions

Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest firms facing informal competition in Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation?

Zimbabwe, at 82.916, of the 181 countries in the file.

How many countries does Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation cover?

181.

Where can I download Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Firms Competing Against Informal Firms, 2026 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-10-03, when it was read from the publisher.

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