See all the data for 190 economies: rankings for topics, indicator values, and detailed information like the steps required to start a business. Multi-city data available for 11 economies (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Russian Federation and the United States) with populations over 100 million as of 2013.

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.

Subnational studies have benchmarked 510 locations in 75 economies since 2005.

For an in-depth, cross-economy view of the data, head to one of 10 Doing Business topic pages. Compare dozens of indicators for topics ranging from starting a business to resolving insolvency.

The ease of doing business score measured the gap between a particular economy’s performance and the best practice, and served as basis for the ease of doing business rankings. 

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

Excel files: Explanation of changes | Historical data (DB04-DB20) | Paying taxes update | Trading across borders update

Stata files for score replication: Historical data (.dta) | Best and worst performance (.dta) | Weights (.dta) | Code for score replication (.do)

Data corrections: See modifications made to Doing Business data

Economic characteristics: Information on per capita income, income groupings and population

Methodology: Data Notes