Doing Business 2016

Doing Business 2016 by World Bank Group: 189 economies ranked, led by Singapore. The entries on record, movement since the last edition, and method notes.

See the original list at World Bank Group

Covered 189 economies. Top three: Singapore, New Zealand, Denmark. Last of Singapore's 10 straight years at first.

The list on record

This page shows the 189 entries on record of 189 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 [29, 38, 84, 88, 97, 101, 114, 143], missing ranks [30, 39, 85, 89, 98, 102, 115, 144]; these are flagged as ties but may be transcription errors. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since Doing Business 2015
1	Singapore	Singapore	No change
2	New Zealand	New Zealand	No change
3	Denmark	Denmark	Up 1
4	South Korea	South Korea	Up 1
5	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Down 2
6	United Kingdom	United Kingdom	Up 2
7	United States	United States	No change
8	Sweden	Sweden	Up 3
9	Norway	Norway	Down 3
10	Finland	Finland	Down 1
11	Taiwan	Taiwan	Up 8
12	North Macedonia	North Macedonia	Up 18
13	Australia	Australia	Down 3
14	Canada	Canada	Up 2
15	Germany	Germany	Down 1
16	Estonia	Estonia	Up 1
17	Ireland	Ireland	Down 4
18	Malaysia	Malaysia	No change
19	Iceland	Iceland	Down 7
20	Lithuania	Lithuania	Up 4
21	Austria	Austria	No change
22	Latvia	Latvia	Up 1
23	Portugal	Portugal	Up 2
24	Georgia	Georgia	Down 9
25	Poland	Poland	Up 7
26	Switzerland	Switzerland	Down 6
27	France	France	Up 4
28	Netherlands	Netherlands	Down 1
=29	Slovakia	Slovakia	Up 8
=29	Slovenia	Slovenia	Up 22
31	United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	Down 9
32	Mauritius	Mauritius	Down 4
33	Spain	Spain	No change
34	Japan	Japan	Down 5
35	Armenia	Armenia	Up 10
36	Czech Republic	Czech Republic	Up 8
37	Romania	Romania	Up 11
=38	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	No change
=38	Mexico	Mexico	Up 1
40	Croatia	Croatia	Up 25
41	Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	Up 36
42	Hungary	Hungary	Up 12
43	Belgium	Belgium	Down 1
44	Belarus	Belarus	Up 13
45	Italy	Italy	Up 11
46	Montenegro	Montenegro	Down 10
47	Cyprus	Cyprus	Up 17
48	Chile	Chile	Down 7
49	Thailand	Thailand	Down 23
50	Peru	Peru	Down 15
51	Russia	Russia	Up 11
52	Moldova	Moldova	Up 11
53	Israel	Israel	Down 13
54	Colombia	Colombia	Down 20
55	Turkey	Turkey	No change
56	Mongolia	Mongolia	Up 16
57	Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico	Down 10
58	Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Up 25
59	Serbia	Serbia	Up 32
60	Greece	Greece	Up 1
61	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Down 2
62	Rwanda	Rwanda	Down 16
63	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan	Up 17
64	Jamaica	Jamaica	Down 6
65	Bahrain	Bahrain	Down 12
66	Kosovo	Kosovo	Up 9
67	Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyzstan	Up 35
68	Qatar	Qatar	Down 18
69	Panama	Panama	Down 17
70	Oman	Oman	Down 4
71	Bhutan	Bhutan	Up 54
72	Botswana	Botswana	Up 2
73	South Africa	South Africa	Down 30
74	Tunisia	Tunisia	Down 14
75	Morocco	Morocco	Down 4
76	San Marino	San Marino	Up 17
77	Saint Lucia	Saint Lucia	Up 23
78	Tonga	Tonga	Down 9
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Up 28
80	Malta	Malta	Up 14
81	Guatemala	Guatemala	Down 8
82	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	Down 33
83	Ukraine	Ukraine	Up 13
=84	Brunei	Brunei	Up 17
=84	China	China	Up 6
86	El Salvador	El Salvador	Up 23
87	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan	Up 54
=88	Fiji	Fiji	Down 7
=88	Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	Down 9
90	Vietnam	Vietnam	Down 12
91	Dominica	Dominica	Up 6
92	Uruguay	Uruguay	Down 10
93	Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic	Down 9
94	Vanuatu	Vanuatu	Down 18
95	Seychelles	Seychelles	Down 10
96	Samoa	Samoa	Down 29
=97	Albania	Albania	Down 29
=97	Zambia	Zambia	Up 14
99	Nepal	Nepal	Up 9
100	Paraguay	Paraguay	Down 8
=101	Kuwait	Kuwait	Down 15
=101	Namibia	Namibia	Down 13
103	Philippines	Philippines	Down 8
104	Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua and Barbuda	Down 15
105	Eswatini	Eswatini	Up 5
106	Bahamas	Bahamas	Down 9
107	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	Down 8
108	Kenya	Kenya	Up 28
109	Indonesia	Indonesia	Up 5
110	Honduras	Honduras	Down 6
111	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Down 8
112	Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands	Down 25
113	Jordan	Jordan	Up 4
=114	Ghana	Ghana	Down 44
=114	Lesotho	Lesotho	Up 14
116	Brazil	Brazil	Up 4
117	Ecuador	Ecuador	Down 2
118	Iran	Iran	Up 12
119	Barbados	Barbados	Down 13
120	Belize	Belize	Down 2
121	Argentina	Argentina	Up 3
122	Uganda	Uganda	Up 28
123	Lebanon	Lebanon	Down 19
124	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Down 3
125	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	Down 6
126	Cape Verde	Cape Verde	Down 4
127	Cambodia	Cambodia	Up 8
128	Maldives	Maldives	Down 12
129	Palestine	Palestine	Up 14
130	India	India	Up 12
131	Egypt	Egypt	Down 19
132	Tajikistan	Tajikistan	Up 34
133	Mozambique	Mozambique	Down 6
134	Laos	Laos	Up 14
135	Grenada	Grenada	Down 9
136	Palau	Palau	Down 23
137	Guyana	Guyana	Down 14
138	Pakistan	Pakistan	Down 10
139	Tanzania	Tanzania	Down 8
140	Marshall Islands	Marshall Islands	Down 1
141	Malawi	Malawi	Up 23
142	Côte d'Ivoire	Côte d'Ivoire	Up 5
=143	Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	Up 24
=143	Mali	Mali	Up 3
145	Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinea	Down 12
146	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	Down 14
147	Sierra Leone	Sierra Leone	Down 7
148	Micronesia	Micronesia	Down 3
149	Kiribati	Kiribati	Down 15
150	Togo	Togo	Down 1
151	Gambia	Gambia	Down 13
152	Burundi	Burundi	No change
153	Senegal	Senegal	Up 8
154	Comoros	Comoros	Up 5
155	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	Up 16
156	Suriname	Suriname	Up 6
157	Bolivia	Bolivia	No change
158	Benin	Benin	Down 7
159	Sudan	Sudan	Up 1
160	Niger	Niger	Up 8
161	Iraq	Iraq	Down 5
162	Gabon	Gabon	Down 18
163	Algeria	Algeria	Down 9
164	Madagascar	Madagascar	Down 1
165	Guinea	Guinea	Up 4
166	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé and Príncipe	Down 13
167	Myanmar	Myanmar	Up 10
168	Mauritania	Mauritania	Up 8
169	Nigeria	Nigeria	Up 1
170	Yemen	Yemen	Down 33
171	Djibouti	Djibouti	Down 16
172	Cameroon	Cameroon	Down 14
173	Timor Leste	Timor Leste	Down 1
174	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	Down 1
175	Syria	Syria	No change
176	Congo	Congo	Up 2
177	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	Up 6
178	Guinea-Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	Up 1
179	Liberia	Liberia	Down 5
180	Equatorial Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	Down 15
181	Angola	Angola	No change
182	Haiti	Haiti	Down 2
183	Chad	Chad	Up 2
184	Democratic Republic of Congo	Democratic Republic of Congo	No change
185	Central African Republic	Central African Republic	Up 2
186	Venezuela	Venezuela	Down 4
187	South Sudan	South Sudan	Down 1
188	Libya	Libya	No change
189	Eritrea	Eritrea	No change

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 2016