Doing Business Data

Doing Business offers an expansive array of economic data from 2003 to the present. The data is presented in a variety of ways useful to researchers, policy makers, journalists and others. Here are some of the options:

Economy Snapshots

See all the data for 183 economies: rankings for topics, indicator values, and detailed information like the steps required to start a business.

Subnational Snapshots

See all the data for a city or region within an economy: rankings for topics, indicator values, and detailed information like the steps required to start a business.

Topics

For an in-depth, cross-economy view of the data, head to one of 11 Doing Business topic pages. Compare dozens of indicators for topics ranging from starting a business to resolving insolvency.

Rankings

The Ease of Doing Business index ranks Singapore first among 183 economies. Where does your economy rank? Rank economies within their region, income group, or population size.
View the rankings.

Simulating Regulatory Changes

What if an economy made it easier to start a business? How would its rankings change? Reform simulators are easy-to-use Excel files that let policy makers see the impact of business reform.
Access reform simulators.

Historical Data

Specially designed for researchers, you can quickly download thousands of data points dating back to 2003.
Create a custom dataset.

More Data Resources

» Data corrections: Modifications to Doing Business 2011 data (Excel, 200KB)
» Economic characteristics: Information on per capita income, income groupings and population
» Methodology changes: How it was improved this year 

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