Doing Business 2006

Covered 155 economies. Top three: New Zealand, Singapore, United States. First edition with an aggregate ease of doing business ranking.

Method changed. Positions in this edition are not directly comparable with the previous one.

Aggregate ranking introduced.

The list on record

This page shows the 155 entries on record of 155 published. Ranks from the Wikipedia ease of doing business index table (secondary), which gives rankings as at the time of each report's publication; the World Bank's historical ranking tables are in its Doing Business archive (https://archive.doingbusiness.org/en/rankings). South Korea's rank is left null (the Wikipedia value duplicates Mauritius at 23 and the column has two gaps, 27 and 50). Serbia and Montenegro share rank 92 as the former State Union. Remaining inconsistencies in this column: duplicate ranks [92], missing ranks [27, 50]; these are flagged as ties but may be transcription errors. See the original list.