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Management Practices Index

Management Practices Index, 2026 compilation · 169 countries

The management practices index scores how medium and large firms are run — whether they act on problems, track performance, set demanding targets and reward or promote staff on results — from eight questions in the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys. Research on management links structured practices like these to higher productivity.

This site holds one edition, Management Practices Index, 2026 compilation, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Management Practices Index, 2026 compilation
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1 edition · 169 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Management Practices Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Management Practices Index, 2026 compilation169—October 3, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: management-practices-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 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 Management Practices Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2026DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1690
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1690
Management practices index, medium and large firms (0–100)management_practicesHeadlineThe headline figure: Management practices index, medium and large firms (0–100).Number · up to 8 decimals28.0683Mali69.2880Norwaymiddle 52.38911690
Reference yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—90

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.

03169 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition 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 edition of Management Practices Index, by continent.
2026
Africa50
Americas26
Asia44
Europe40
Oceania9
All169

One edition, covering 169 countries.

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

    Management Practices Index (readings to 2026)

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    October 3, 2026

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

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 8 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.

World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey.

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 October 3, 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, Management Practices Index, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Management Practices Index, Management Practices Index, 2026 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/management-practices

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Enterprise Surveys. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Management Practices Index: questions and answers

What is the Management Practices Index?

The management practices index scores how medium and large firms are run — whether they act on problems, track performance, set demanding targets and reward or promote staff on results — from eight questions in the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys. Research on management links structured practices like these to higher productivity.

Which editions of the Management Practices Index can I download?

One: Management Practices Index, 2026 compilation, 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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