Doing Business 2009

Doing Business 2009 by World Bank Group: 181 economies ranked, led by Singapore. The entries on record, movement since the last edition, and method notes.

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Covered 181 economies. Top three: Singapore, New Zealand, United States.

The list on record

This page shows the 181 entries on record of 181 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 [165], missing ranks [167]; these are flagged as ties but may be transcription errors. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since Doing Business 2008
1	Singapore	Singapore	No change
2	New Zealand	New Zealand	No change
3	United States	United States	No change
4	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	No change
5	Denmark	Denmark	No change
6	United Kingdom	United Kingdom	No change
7	Ireland	Ireland	Up 1
8	Canada	Canada	Down 1
9	Australia	Australia	No change
10	Norway	Norway	Up 1
11	Iceland	Iceland	Down 1
12	Japan	Japan	No change
13	Thailand	Thailand	Up 2
14	Finland	Finland	Down 1
15	Georgia	Georgia	Up 3
16	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	Up 7
17	Sweden	Sweden	Down 3
18	Bahrain	Bahrain
19	Belgium	Belgium	No change
20	Malaysia	Malaysia	Up 4
21	Switzerland	Switzerland	Down 5
22	Estonia	Estonia	Down 5
23	South Korea	South Korea	Up 7
24	Mauritius	Mauritius	Up 3
25	Germany	Germany	Down 5
26	Netherlands	Netherlands	Down 5
27	Austria	Austria	Down 2
28	Lithuania	Lithuania	Down 2
29	Latvia	Latvia	Down 7
30	Israel	Israel	Down 1
31	France	France	No change
32	South Africa	South Africa	Up 3
33	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	Up 63
34	Saint Lucia	Saint Lucia	No change
35	Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico	Down 7
36	Slovakia	Slovakia	Down 4
37	Qatar	Qatar
38	Botswana	Botswana	Up 13
39	Fiji	Fiji	Down 3
40	Chile	Chile	Down 7
41	Hungary	Hungary	Up 4
42	Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua and Barbuda	Down 1
43	Tonga	Tonga	Up 4
44	Armenia	Armenia	Down 5
45	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Up 1
46	United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	Up 22
47	Romania	Romania	Up 1
48	Portugal	Portugal	Down 11
49	Spain	Spain	Down 11
50	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Down 8
51	Namibia	Namibia	Down 8
52	Kuwait	Kuwait	Down 12
53	Colombia	Colombia	Up 13
54	Slovenia	Slovenia	Up 1
55	Bahamas	Bahamas
56	Mexico	Mexico	Down 12
57	Oman	Oman	Down 8
58	Mongolia	Mongolia	Down 6
59	Turkey	Turkey	Down 2
60	Vanuatu	Vanuatu	Up 2
61	Taiwan	Taiwan	Down 11
62	Peru	Peru	Down 4
63	Jamaica	Jamaica	No change
64	Samoa	Samoa	Down 3
65	Italy	Italy	Down 12
66	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Down 12
67	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Down 3
68	Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyzstan	Up 26
69	Maldives	Maldives	Down 9
70	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	Up 1
71	North Macedonia	North Macedonia	Up 4
72	El Salvador	El Salvador	Down 3
73	Tunisia	Tunisia	Up 15
74	Dominica	Dominica	Up 3
75	Czech Republic	Czech Republic	Down 19
76	Poland	Poland	Down 2
77	Pakistan	Pakistan	Down 1
78	Belize	Belize	Down 19
79	Kiribati	Kiribati	Down 6
80	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	Down 13
81	Panama	Panama	Down 16
82	Kenya	Kenya	Down 10
83	China	China	No change
84	Grenada	Grenada	Down 14
85	Belarus	Belarus	Up 25
86	Albania	Albania	Up 50
87	Ghana	Ghana	No change
88	Brunei	Brunei	Down 10
89	Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands	Down 10
90	Montenegro	Montenegro	Down 9
91	Palau	Palau	Down 9
92	Vietnam	Vietnam	Down 1
93	Marshall Islands	Marshall Islands	Down 4
94	Serbia	Serbia	Down 8
95	Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinea	Down 11
96	Greece	Greece	Up 4
97	Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic	Up 2
98	Yemen	Yemen	Up 15
99	Lebanon	Lebanon	Down 14
100	Zambia	Zambia	Up 16
101	Jordan	Jordan	Down 21
102	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	Down 1
103	Moldova	Moldova	Down 11
104	Seychelles	Seychelles	Down 14
105	Guyana	Guyana	Down 1
106	Croatia	Croatia	Down 9
107	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	Down 14
108	Eswatini	Eswatini	Down 13
109	Uruguay	Uruguay	Down 11
110	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	Down 3
111	Uganda	Uganda	Up 7
112	Guatemala	Guatemala	Up 2
113	Argentina	Argentina	Down 4
114	Egypt	Egypt	Up 12
115	Paraguay	Paraguay	Down 12
116	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	Down 14
117	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Down 2
118	Nigeria	Nigeria	Down 10
119	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Down 14
120	Russia	Russia	Down 14
121	Nepal	Nepal	Down 10
122	India	India	Down 2
123	Lesotho	Lesotho	Up 1
124	Bhutan	Bhutan	Down 5
125	Brazil	Brazil	Down 3
126	Micronesia	Micronesia	Down 14
127	Tanzania	Tanzania	Up 3
128	Morocco	Morocco	Up 1
129	Indonesia	Indonesia	Down 6
130	Gambia	Gambia	Up 1
131	Palestine	Palestine	Down 14
132	Algeria	Algeria	Down 7
133	Honduras	Honduras	Down 12
134	Malawi	Malawi	Down 7
135	Cambodia	Cambodia	Up 10
136	Ecuador	Ecuador	Down 8
137	Syria	Syria	No change
138	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	No change
139	Rwanda	Rwanda	Up 11
140	Philippines	Philippines	Down 7
141	Mozambique	Mozambique	Down 7
142	Iran	Iran	Down 7
143	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Down 11
144	Madagascar	Madagascar	Up 5
145	Ukraine	Ukraine	Down 6
146	Suriname	Suriname	Down 4
147	Sudan	Sudan	Down 4
148	Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	Up 13
149	Senegal	Senegal	Up 13
150	Bolivia	Bolivia	Down 10
151	Gabon	Gabon	Down 7
152	Iraq	Iraq	Down 11
153	Djibouti	Djibouti	Down 7
154	Haiti	Haiti	Down 6
155	Comoros	Comoros	Down 9
156	Sierra Leone	Sierra Leone	Up 4
157	Liberia	Liberia	Up 13
158	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	Down 6
159	Tajikistan	Tajikistan	Down 6
160	Mauritania	Mauritania	Down 3
161	Côte d'Ivoire	Côte d'Ivoire	Down 6
162	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	Down 3
163	Togo	Togo	Down 7
164	Cameroon	Cameroon	Down 10
=165	Equatorial Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	No change
=165	Laos	Laos	Down 1
166	Mali	Mali	Down 8
168	Angola	Angola	Down 1
169	Benin	Benin	Down 18
170	Timor Leste	Timor Leste	Down 2
171	Guinea	Guinea	Down 5
172	Niger	Niger	Down 3
173	Eritrea	Eritrea	Down 2
174	Venezuela	Venezuela	Down 2
175	Chad	Chad	Down 2
176	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé and Príncipe	Down 13
177	Burundi	Burundi	Down 3
178	Congo	Congo	Down 3
179	Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	Down 3
180	Central African Republic	Central African Republic	Down 3
181	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 2009