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Business Ready: public services by country
Does the state provide the services its business rules assume?
Estonia placed first of the 50 countries compared in 2024, at 73.31, and Central African Republic last, at 18.35. In the middle country the figure was 50.13.
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Business Ready: public services · 2024
Context statistic
Highest of 50Estonia
73.31012024 · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 50 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Andrus Uuetalu derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee, greyscale
2Photo: Khairul Nizam . · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
3Photo: Wolfgang Steinkläubl · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Lowest in 2024
- 50
Central African Republic18.35 - 49
Gambia20.11 - 48
Iraq21.45
Positions out of 50. Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
02Every measured country
Business Ready: public services on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 18.35–37.21
- 37.81–46.40
- 47.67–53.56
- 56.28–64.03
- 64.40–73.31
- No reading in 2024
- Europe
64.40
the middle country, of 11 measured · 49 members
Estonia73.31
Bosnia and Herzegovina37.81Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Americas
57.25
the middle country, of 7 measured · 48 members
Colombia66.28
El Salvador45.36Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Asia
47.13
the middle country, of 14 measured · 52 members
Singapore70.40Iraq21.45Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Africa
40.30
the middle country, of 15 measured · 55 members
Rwanda67.37Central African Republic18.35Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Oceania
3 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: New Zealand, Samoa, Vanuatu.
New Zealand68.91
Vanuatu32.06Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
19 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Southern Europe
58.98
the middle country, of 6 measured · 17 members
Croatia70.24Bosnia and Herzegovina37.81Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- South-eastern Asia
52.10
the middle country, of 6 measured · 11 members
Singapore70.40
Timor-Leste23.80Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Eastern Africa
51.56
the middle country, of 5 measured · 19 members
Rwanda67.37
Madagascar31.64Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Western Africa
40.30
the middle country, of 5 measured · 16 members
Togo49.58Gambia20.11Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Australia and New Zealand
1 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: New Zealand.
New Zealand68.91Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Caribbean
1 of 24 measured — too few for a middle: Barbados.
Barbados46.40Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Central America
3 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico.
Costa Rica63.58El Salvador45.36Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Central Asia
1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan41.23Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Eastern Asia
1 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Hong Kong.
Hong Kong62.64Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Eastern Europe
4 of 10 measured — too few for a middle: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia.
Hungary69.50
Romania63.19Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Melanesia
1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Vanuatu.
Vanuatu32.06Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Middle Africa
2 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Central African Republic, Chad.
Chad23.51Central African Republic18.35Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Northern Africa
1 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Morocco.
Morocco58.66Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Northern Europe
1 of 13 measured — too few for a middle: Estonia.
Estonia73.31Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Polynesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa.
Samoa40.04Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
- South America
3 of 12 measured — too few for a middle: Colombia, Paraguay, Peru.
Colombia66.28
Paraguay50.68Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Southern Africa
2 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Botswana, Lesotho.
Botswana48.52
Lesotho37.89Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Southern Asia
3 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan.
Nepal49.29
Bangladesh41.64Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Western Asia
3 of 19 measured — too few for a middle: Georgia, Iraq, Palestine.
Georgia63.33Iraq21.45Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
50 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 50.13; a quarter are above 63.42, and a quarter below 39.37. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 50 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a position shared with another country. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. Coverage is a rollout, not a ranking of the world: the 2024 edition scores 50 economies against the roughly 180 most indicators here cover, so read it as a partial picture.
Showing 25 of 50 countries
Values for 2024.
05In this edition
Business Ready: public services in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
73.31
Public services score (0–100)
Lowest reading
18.35
Public services score (0–100)
06The measure
About Business Ready: public services
Business Ready: Public Services scores whether the state actually provides what its own business rules assume — working registries, digital filing, functioning courts, and the infrastructure a firm needs to comply in practice. It is one of three pillars in the World Bank’s replacement for Doing Business.
What the number is: Public services score (0–100).
07Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Governance & Institutions and Economy & Innovation, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Governance & InstitutionsEconomy & InnovationWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where Business Ready: public services is higher, these tend to be higher too.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Moves against
Where Business Ready: public services is higher, these tend to be lower.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 0 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
08Keep reading
Explore further
The data, edition by edition
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09Questions
Business Ready: public services: questions and answers
Which country has the highest Business Ready: public services?
Estonia, at 73.31, among the 50 countries compared in 2024.
Which country has the lowest Business Ready: public services?
Central African Republic, at 18.35, among the 50 countries compared in 2024.
How many countries does the Business Ready: Public Services cover?
50 in 2024.
What is the world average Business Ready: public services?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 50 compared in 2024, the figure was 50.13.
Is this World Bank Group’s own ranking?
No. World Bank Group publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Business Ready: Public Services published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2024.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From World Bank Group, under CC BY 4.0. 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. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
10Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Business Ready: Public Services — World Bank Group
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.
Newest edition
Report year 2024Data year 2024
Cite the source as: World Bank. Business Ready (B-READY). Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-05.
How this page reads the numbers
- World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Estonia — Andrus Uuetalu derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
- Singapore — Khairul Nizam ., CC BY 2.0
- Croatia — Wolfgang Steinkläubl, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Business Ready: public services by country: Business Ready: Public Services, data from World Bank Group. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/bready-public-services