Doing Business 2008

Doing Business 2008 by World Bank Group: 178 economies ranked, led by Singapore. The entries on record, movement since the last edition, and method notes.

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Covered 178 economies. Top three: Singapore, New Zealand, United States.

The list on record

This page shows the 178 entries on record of 178 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). Wikipedia's South Korea row appears shifted by one year; Korea was assigned the one rank missing from this column. Remaining inconsistencies in this column: duplicate ranks [146], missing ranks [147]; these are flagged as ties but may be transcription errors. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since Doing Business 2007
1	Singapore	Singapore	No change
2	New Zealand	New Zealand	No change
3	United States	United States	No change
4	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Up 1
5	Denmark	Denmark	Up 2
6	United Kingdom	United Kingdom	No change
7	Canada	Canada	Down 3
8	Ireland	Ireland	Up 2
9	Australia	Australia	Down 1
10	Iceland	Iceland	Up 2
11	Norway	Norway	Down 2
12	Japan	Japan	Down 1
13	Finland	Finland	Up 1
14	Sweden	Sweden	Down 1
15	Thailand	Thailand	Up 3
16	Switzerland	Switzerland	Down 1
17	Estonia	Estonia	No change
18	Georgia	Georgia	Up 19
19	Belgium	Belgium	Up 1
20	Germany	Germany	Up 1
21	Netherlands	Netherlands	Up 1
22	Latvia	Latvia	Up 2
23	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	Up 15
24	Malaysia	Malaysia	Up 1
25	Austria	Austria	Up 5
26	Lithuania	Lithuania	Down 10
27	Mauritius	Mauritius	Up 5
28	Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico	Down 9
29	Israel	Israel	Down 3
30	South Korea	South Korea	Down 7
31	France	France	Up 4
32	Slovakia	Slovakia	Up 4
33	Chile	Chile	Down 5
34	Saint Lucia	Saint Lucia	Down 7
35	South Africa	South Africa	Down 6
36	Fiji	Fiji	Down 5
37	Portugal	Portugal	Up 3
38	Spain	Spain	Up 1
39	Armenia	Armenia	Down 5
40	Kuwait	Kuwait	Up 6
41	Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua and Barbuda	Down 8
42	Luxembourg	Luxembourg
43	Namibia	Namibia	Down 1
44	Mexico	Mexico	Down 1
45	Hungary	Hungary	Up 21
46	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Up 8
47	Tonga	Tonga	Up 4
48	Romania	Romania	Up 1
49	Oman	Oman	Up 6
50	Taiwan	Taiwan	Down 3
51	Botswana	Botswana	Down 3
52	Mongolia	Mongolia	Down 7
53	Italy	Italy	Up 29
54	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Up 31
55	Slovenia	Slovenia	Up 6
56	Czech Republic	Czech Republic	Down 4
57	Turkey	Turkey	Up 34
58	Peru	Peru	Up 7
59	Belize	Belize	Down 3
60	Maldives	Maldives	Down 7
61	Samoa	Samoa	Down 20
62	Vanuatu	Vanuatu	Down 4
63	Jamaica	Jamaica	Down 13
64	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Down 20
65	Panama	Panama	Up 16
66	Colombia	Colombia	Up 13
67	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	Down 8
68	United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	Up 9
69	El Salvador	El Salvador	Up 2
70	Grenada	Grenada	Up 3
71	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	Down 8
72	Kenya	Kenya	Up 11
73	Kiribati	Kiribati	Down 13
74	Poland	Poland	Up 1
75	North Macedonia	North Macedonia	Up 17
76	Pakistan	Pakistan	Down 2
77	Dominica	Dominica	Down 5
78	Brunei	Brunei
79	Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands	Down 10
80	Jordan	Jordan	Down 2
81	Montenegro	Montenegro	Down 11
82	Palau	Palau	Down 20
83	China	China	Up 10
84	Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinea	Down 27
85	Lebanon	Lebanon	Up 1
86	Serbia	Serbia	Down 18
87	Ghana	Ghana	Up 7
88	Tunisia	Tunisia	Down 8
89	Marshall Islands	Marshall Islands	Down 2
90	Seychelles	Seychelles	Down 6
91	Vietnam	Vietnam	Up 13
92	Moldova	Moldova	Up 11
93	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	Down 26
94	Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyzstan	Down 4
95	Eswatini	Eswatini	Down 19
96	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	Up 3
97	Croatia	Croatia	Up 27
98	Uruguay	Uruguay	Down 34
99	Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic	Up 18
100	Greece	Greece	Up 9
101	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	Down 12
102	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	Down 5
103	Paraguay	Paraguay	Up 9
104	Guyana	Guyana	Up 32
105	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Down 10
106	Russia	Russia	Down 10
107	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	Down 19
108	Nigeria	Nigeria	No change
109	Argentina	Argentina	Down 8
110	Belarus	Belarus	Up 19
111	Nepal	Nepal	Down 11
112	Micronesia	Micronesia	Down 6
113	Yemen	Yemen	Down 15
114	Guatemala	Guatemala	Up 4
115	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Down 10
116	Zambia	Zambia	Down 14
117	Palestine	Palestine	Up 10
118	Uganda	Uganda	Down 11
119	Bhutan	Bhutan	Up 19
120	India	India	Up 14
121	Honduras	Honduras	Down 10
122	Brazil	Brazil	Down 1
123	Indonesia	Indonesia	Up 12
124	Lesotho	Lesotho	Down 10
125	Algeria	Algeria	Down 9
126	Egypt	Egypt	Up 39
127	Malawi	Malawi	Down 17
128	Ecuador	Ecuador	Down 5
129	Morocco	Morocco	Down 14
130	Tanzania	Tanzania	Up 12
131	Gambia	Gambia	Down 18
132	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Down 7
133	Philippines	Philippines	Down 7
134	Mozambique	Mozambique	Up 6
135	Iran	Iran	Down 16
136	Albania	Albania	Down 16
137	Syria	Syria	Down 7
138	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	Up 9
139	Ukraine	Ukraine	Down 11
140	Bolivia	Bolivia	Down 9
141	Iraq	Iraq	Up 4
142	Suriname	Suriname	Down 20
143	Sudan	Sudan	Up 11
144	Gabon	Gabon	Down 12
145	Cambodia	Cambodia	Down 2
=146	Comoros	Comoros	Down 2
=146	Djibouti	Djibouti	Up 15
148	Haiti	Haiti	Down 9
149	Madagascar	Madagascar	No change
150	Rwanda	Rwanda	Up 8
151	Benin	Benin	Down 14
152	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	Up 1
153	Tajikistan	Tajikistan	Down 20
154	Cameroon	Cameroon	Down 2
155	Côte d'Ivoire	Côte d'Ivoire	Down 14
156	Togo	Togo	Down 5
157	Mauritania	Mauritania	Down 9
158	Mali	Mali	Down 3
159	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	Up 3
160	Sierra Leone	Sierra Leone	Up 8
161	Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	Up 2
162	Senegal	Senegal	Down 16
163	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé and Príncipe	Up 6
164	Laos	Laos	Down 5
165	Equatorial Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	Down 15
166	Guinea	Guinea	Down 9
167	Angola	Angola	Down 11
168	Timor Leste	Timor Leste	Up 6
169	Niger	Niger	Down 9
170	Liberia	Liberia
171	Eritrea	Eritrea	Down 1
172	Venezuela	Venezuela	Down 8
173	Chad	Chad	Down 1
174	Burundi	Burundi	Down 8
175	Congo	Congo	Down 4
176	Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	Down 3
177	Central African Republic	Central African Republic	Down 10
178	Democratic Republic of Congo	Democratic Republic of Congo	Down 3

This list is reproduced as World Bank Group published it, from a secondary source. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.

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World Bank Group: Doing Business (Ease of Doing Business ranking) Doing Business 2008