Distance to Frontier

The distance to frontier score aids in assessing the absolute level of regulatory performance and how it improves over time. This measure shows the distance of each economy to the “frontier,” which represents the best performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies in the Doing Business sample since 2005. This allows users both to see the gap between a particular economy’s performance and the best performance at any point in time and to assess the absolute change in the economy’s regulatory environment over time as measured by Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is reflected on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 represents the frontier. For example, a score of 75 in DB 2015 means an economy was 25 percentage points away from the frontier constructed from the best performances across all economies and across time. A score of 80 in DB 2016 would indicate the economy is improving. In this way the distance to frontier measure complements the annual ease of doing business ranking, which compares economies with one another at a point in time.

Multi City = Multi-city data for same economy is available.

Methodology
Explanation of how the ease of doing business rankings and the distance to frontier score (PDF, 95KB) are measured and calculated.

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Economy ▲	DB 2010	DB 2011	DB 2012	DB 2013	DB 2014	DB 2015	DB 2016
Afghanistan	40.69	37.96	39.45	40.08	41.28	40.65	40.58
Albania	62.17	62.34	58.67	58.90	59.37	66.77	60.50
Algeria	50.96	50.70	50.90	51.16	53.33	45.40	45.72
Angola	37.71	37.61	40.63	42.88	45.70	37.46	39.64
Antigua and Barbuda	64.81	64.67	64.38	63.95	64.06	59.89	59.70
Argentina	56.91	56.76	57.19	56.33	56.48	56.82	56.78
Armenia	61.82	62.37	64.87	68.78	70.34	72.68	74.22
Australia	80.80	81.15	80.98	81.63	81.69	80.09	80.08
Austria	76.44	76.80	76.79	77.95	78.54	78.36	78.38
Azerbaijan	62.38	62.37	63.54	64.30	65.74	66.65	67.80
Bahamas, The	65.38	65.40	64.96	65.05	65.28	57.77	59.00
Bahrain	67.06	67.19	67.25	67.52	68.25	66.79	66.81
Bangladesh					49.14	42.71	43.10
Bangladesh - Dhaka	47.43	49.25	48.00	47.47	49.41	42.75	43.14
Bangladesh - Chittagong					48.21	42.58	42.95
Barbados			62.18	62.23	62.21	56.88	56.85
Belarus	54.09	56.59	61.74	64.70	67.09	71.79	72.33
Belgium	74.05	73.79	74.05	74.20	74.23	72.39	72.50
Belize	61.06	60.96	61.52	61.72	61.80	56.77	56.83
Benin	38.05	39.58	42.02	43.75	44.90	45.37	47.15
Bhutan	56.58	55.98	58.87	59.32	60.31	64.90	65.21
Bolivia	49.53	49.74	50.08	50.23	49.92	46.99	47.47
Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.04	53.24	54.66	55.17	56.09	63.36	63.71
Botswana	64.90	65.33	66.51	67.02	68.37	64.42	64.98
Brazil					53.16	57.66	57.67
Brazil - São Paulo	53.73	53.34	53.31	53.23	53.52	57.12	57.12
Brazil - Rio de Janeiro					52.60	58.52	58.52
Brunei Darussalam	60.94	60.98	62.26	62.37	64.87	58.02	62.93
Bulgaria	68.41	68.54	68.22	68.66	68.98	73.62	73.72
Burkina Faso	40.72	42.02	45.28	45.57	46.56	48.97	50.81
Burundi	35.64	35.84	41.88	46.64	50.63	48.80	48.82
Cabo Verde	53.32	55.82	58.58	58.85	59.53	55.28	55.54
Cambodia	49.82	50.17	50.68	51.58	51.52	52.78	55.22
Cameroon	43.33	45.38	47.75	48.79	49.24	44.02	44.11
Canada	79.82	80.81	80.40	80.82	80.48	79.90	80.07
Central African Republic	27.50	27.51	33.71	32.46	32.75	36.15	36.26
Chad	29.43	29.05	31.72	31.70	32.68	37.83	38.22
Chile	68.45	69.85	72.40	71.67	72.31	70.86	71.49
China					61.13	62.81	62.93
China - Shanghai	56.52	59.45	58.58	59.94	61.20	63.22	63.38
China - Beijing					61.04	62.31	62.39
Colombia	65.70	66.85	69.03	68.99	70.03	69.89	70.43
Comoros	45.17	45.55	47.40	48.73	49.70	46.09	48.22
Congo, Dem. Rep.	30.15	33.32	34.40	34.80	37.55	34.79	38.14
Congo, Rep.	36.80	34.44	37.42	38.55	40.19	41.48	41.88
Costa Rica	57.12	56.82	58.06	60.10	62.40	63.59	68.55
Côte d'Ivoire	41.36	41.50	44.18	44.83	48.59	49.71	50.93
Croatia	61.32	61.89	63.11	62.79	63.92	72.50	72.71
Cyprus	66.55	67.77	69.14	69.43	69.44	67.37	71.78
Czech Republic	62.18	66.87	67.58	68.73	69.66	73.86	73.95
Denmark	84.24	85.42	85.72	85.79	85.71	84.26	84.40
Djibouti	44.30	43.52	44.05	44.50	49.32	43.94	44.25
Dominica	63.97	63.88	64.06	64.30	64.25	61.10	61.44
Dominican Republic	63.07	62.70	62.40	62.37	62.47	60.77	61.16
Ecuador	57.43	57.49	57.84	57.46	57.94	57.14	57.47
Egypt, Arab Rep.	55.93	56.86	57.90	58.27	58.65	54.19	54.43
El Salvador	60.00	59.50	59.67	59.70	59.89	59.94	62.76
Equatorial Guinea	45.63	44.94	47.40	47.74	49.01	40.06	40.03
Eritrea	32.21	33.37	33.62	34.48	34.81	27.40	27.61
Estonia	75.97	76.32	75.96	75.59	76.29	79.27	79.49
Ethiopia	46.24	48.29	49.19	50.09	54.58	49.24	49.73
Fiji	68.19	68.45	68.33	67.51	67.21	62.52	62.58
Finland	80.89	81.45	82.18	82.22	82.32	80.95	81.05
France	70.36	71.03	71.06	70.87	70.77	75.54	75.96
Gabon	47.57	48.37	50.75	50.31	51.43	46.59	45.99
Gambia, The	48.47	48.77	49.90	51.60	51.14	48.84	48.99
Georgia	74.35	76.78	79.49	81.72	82.26	76.84	77.45
Germany	79.96	79.92	80.06	79.71	80.02	79.64	79.87
Ghana	61.03	63.15	63.79	67.34	66.57	57.65	57.69
Greece	62.31	60.29	60.53	62.52	63.22	68.30	68.38
Grenada	59.29	60.37	60.39	60.51	60.39	53.44	53.46
Guatemala	61.29	61.24	61.66	62.12	65.38	63.41	63.49
Guinea	37.03	35.77	38.39	41.28	44.35	42.83	45.54
Guinea-Bissau	33.46	33.62	40.98	42.12	44.68	38.87	40.56
Guyana	58.37	58.60	58.44	58.63	58.97	53.04	51.83
Haiti	42.99	43.12	42.55	42.63	44.07	39.51	39.56
Honduras	59.21	58.43	59.36	60.03	59.80	56.95	58.06
Hong Kong SAR, China	88.28	88.67	89.34	89.33	88.67	82.87	83.67
Hungary	64.48	66.30	66.05	66.19	66.18	72.45	72.57
Iceland	81.03	81.35	82.62	82.73	83.04	78.89	78.93
India					50.36	52.67	54.68
India - Mumbai	48.81	50.13	52.45	52.78	52.98	53.57	55.56
India - Delhi					48.04	51.87	53.91
Indonesia					56.81	56.73	58.12
Indonesia - Jakarta	57.05	57.62	58.50	58.80	56.69	56.87	58.31
Indonesia - Surabaya					57.21	56.23	57.48
Iran, Islamic Rep.	56.78	56.98	57.07	58.65	58.81	56.74	57.44
Iraq	49.04	48.36	48.68	49.82	50.42	46.08	46.06
Ireland	82.61	82.02	81.49	82.48	83.07	78.85	79.15
Israel	71.33	71.86	71.84	72.93	73.54	70.59	70.56
Italy	65.74	66.12	66.45	67.01	67.80	71.71	72.07
Jamaica	61.20	62.11	62.28	63.80	63.84	64.68	67.27
Japan					77.86	74.72	74.72
Japan - Tokyo	78.42	78.01	78.31	78.24	78.54	74.78	74.78
Japan - Osaka					76.59	74.61	74.61
Jordan	56.83	57.26	58.08	58.12	59.19	57.81	57.84
Kazakhstan	57.06	59.96	62.90	62.94	63.62	69.34	72.68
Kenya	57.60	57.07	57.22	57.46	60.03	53.60	58.24
Kiribati	58.72	58.58	58.63	58.61	58.51	49.99	49.50
Korea, Rep.	81.62	81.86	82.78	83.99	84.17	83.91	83.88
Kosovo	55.93	55.71	55.80	61.29	64.65	66.11	66.22
Kuwait	60.71	60.65	61.71	61.57	61.24	59.77	60.17
Kyrgyz Republic	60.89	62.87	61.45	63.32	64.92	65.40	66.01
Lao PDR	47.29	49.21	49.93	50.30	52.16	51.22	53.77
Latvia	73.19	73.71	76.76	76.90	78.07	77.51	78.06
Lebanon	61.61	61.93	62.33	62.76	62.51	56.50	56.39
Lesotho	50.44	51.51	51.74	54.42	56.55	57.67	57.69
Liberia	41.03	41.16	45.14	47.48	50.82	39.01	40.19
Libya				33.84	35.05	31.99	31.77
Lithuania	73.44	73.47	74.02	74.23	76.48	78.19	78.88
Luxembourg	65.50	65.81	66.74	66.79	66.81	68.32	68.31
Macedonia, FYR	63.30	63.66	66.87	70.15	74.21	79.69	80.18
Madagascar	45.53	44.90	46.64	46.46	47.66	44.28	45.68
Malawi	48.32	49.20	49.60	48.17	49.45	49.74	51.03
Malaysia	74.13	75.90	79.34	79.48	81.23	79.08	79.13
Maldives	59.51	63.80	66.52	64.82	63.04	55.05	55.04
Mali	43.87	47.08	48.55	49.77	50.76	50.11	50.81
Malta			62.11	62.06	62.39	63.69	63.70
Marshall Islands	55.02	57.58	57.57	57.49	57.70	51.58	51.58
Mauritania	41.42	42.52	45.00	45.12	46.12	40.41	44.74
Mauritius	73.43	73.96	74.03	76.53	77.26	74.39	75.05
Mexico					70.93	72.15	73.72
Mexico - Mexico City	65.25	67.58	69.19	71.05	70.81	71.54	73.16
Mexico - Monterrey					71.47	75.17	76.49
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	50.17	50.17	50.22	50.22	48.19	49.68	49.67
Moldova	58.74	59.36	60.37	61.30	65.54	70.76	70.97
Mongolia	58.73	58.81	60.03	61.83	63.19	68.19	68.83
Montenegro	60.69	61.66	63.14	65.34	67.38	71.05	71.85
Morocco	60.86	60.28	63.61	63.05	64.69	63.47	64.51
Mozambique	53.39	54.50	53.39	53.69	57.31	53.66	53.98
Myanmar				43.13	43.93	40.09	45.27
Namibia	63.19	63.22	63.34	63.78	63.63	59.72	60.17
Nepal	60.43	58.13	59.56	60.10	62.77	60.30	60.41
Netherlands	75.20	75.20	75.86	77.13	77.08	76.02	75.94
New Zealand	88.84	89.08	89.09	89.53	89.39	86.75	86.79
Nicaragua	54.10	54.19	57.36	58.06	58.22	55.73	55.78
Niger	36.64	37.69	40.94	42.65	43.51	44.65	46.37
Nigeria					48.33	43.56	44.69
Nigeria - Lagos	42.87	42.70	43.97	43.74	47.87	42.72	44.03
Nigeria - Kano					49.86	46.38	46.90
Norway	82.38	82.51	82.53	83.79	83.89	81.53	81.61
Oman	65.85	65.88	67.61	68.74	68.92	63.67	65.40
Pakistan					58.18	51.62	51.69
Pakistan - Karachi	56.34	56.23	57.28	57.36	59.35	51.97	52.04
Pakistan - Lahore					56.00	50.96	51.03
Palau	56.73	56.70	57.15	56.60	61.18	53.43	53.43
Panama	65.41	65.93	66.03	66.26	67.81	65.75	65.74
Papua New Guinea	57.29	57.10	57.24	57.14	59.80	50.67	50.74
Paraguay	60.78	61.50	61.72	61.71	62.12	60.25	60.19
Peru	67.68	69.35	70.61	71.88	71.83	71.37	71.33
Philippines	54.27	54.98	55.65	55.92	60.48	59.94	60.07
Poland	63.14	65.15	65.95	71.93	74.08	75.38	76.45
Portugal	71.47	73.84	74.80	76.19	75.92	77.43	77.57
Puerto Rico (U.S.)	70.65	71.43	71.09	71.77	71.55	68.73	68.73
Qatar	68.41	67.71	69.22	71.14	71.18	65.82	65.97
Romania	63.04	62.81	62.86	64.33	64.85	73.59	73.78
Russian Federation					65.34	69.26	70.99
Russian Federation - Moscow	54.93	54.32	56.66	58.36	65.40	69.42	71.13
Russian Federation - Saint Petersburg					65.22	68.89	70.66
Rwanda	57.89	59.62	59.83	64.17	69.11	68.88	68.12
Samoa	65.26	67.23	67.49	67.54	67.09	60.63	60.70
San Marino				65.42	65.14	63.64	64.21
São Tomé and Príncipe	42.97	41.14	48.08	48.22	48.58	45.22	45.50
Saudi Arabia	68.16	69.81	69.25	70.21	69.80	62.69	63.17
Senegal	41.89	42.08	43.94	44.27	45.10	46.59	48.57
Serbia	58.33	59.05	59.73	60.63	60.64	65.25	68.41
Seychelles	62.24	62.29	62.87	62.86	63.27	58.31	61.05
Sierra Leone	39.77	44.22	48.31	49.12	54.87	49.67	49.69
Singapore	91.79	92.42	92.42	92.44	93.30	87.34	87.34
Slovak Republic	68.73	69.98	69.98	71.11	71.09	74.74	75.62
Slovenia	63.10	66.00	67.81	69.82	71.11	73.69	75.62
Solomon Islands	55.08	59.57	60.95	62.11	61.87	57.74	57.86
South Africa	68.09	68.47	69.55	70.57	70.84	64.93	64.89
South Sudan				36.58	34.07	35.56	34.78
Spain	68.18	68.22	70.13	70.19	69.50	73.78	74.86
Sri Lanka	57.07	56.04	57.12	61.03	61.60	57.50	58.96
St. Kitts and Nevis	61.42	61.40	60.55	60.51	59.95	55.81	55.83
St. Lucia	65.35	65.12	65.20	65.38	65.16	64.19	64.20
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	63.68	63.79	63.93	63.11	63.21	57.90	57.91
Sudan	49.27	49.43	49.86	51.45	51.50	46.11	46.97
Suriname	44.04	44.41	44.57	44.64	46.54	47.09	47.69
Swaziland	54.73	58.22	58.59	59.27	59.76	59.00	59.10
Sweden	81.69	83.17	82.75	82.40	82.51	81.40	81.72
Switzerland	75.34	75.39	75.48	75.66	75.65	75.95	76.04
Syrian Arab Republic	50.56	50.72	51.52	51.70	46.50	41.61	42.56
Taiwan, China	74.39	74.82	75.92	79.21	79.24	80.53	80.55
Tajikistan	41.07	43.42	43.65	44.47	47.38	51.37	54.19
Tanzania	52.62	55.38	56.51	56.51	56.88	50.89	51.62
Thailand	74.59	74.03	73.82	73.99	74.40	71.33	71.42
Timor-Leste	42.00	42.58	42.97	43.11	45.04	44.08	44.02
Togo	38.58	39.67	41.62	43.61	46.49	47.54	49.03
Tonga	64.58	64.69	65.74	65.25	66.30	64.17	64.13
Trinidad and Tobago	61.88	62.13	62.54	63.52	63.75	62.64	62.58
Tunisia	66.54	68.35	68.44	68.56	69.26	64.12	64.88
Turkey	65.30	65.34	66.05	66.91	68.52	69.93	69.16
Uganda	48.86	51.07	49.94	49.83	54.10	51.80	56.64
Ukraine	39.69	44.18	44.35	48.86	58.12	62.31	63.04
United Arab Emirates	71.57	71.73	71.99	73.48	75.71	74.33	75.10
United Kingdom	83.40	84.19	84.32	84.35	84.74	82.18	82.46
United States					82.32	82.15	82.15
United States - New York City	85.72	85.72	85.65	84.94	84.82	83.13	83.13
United States - Los Angeles					78.56	80.68	80.69
Uruguay	58.98	58.93	62.01	63.39	63.73	61.16	61.21
Uzbekistan	39.99	41.09	44.10	46.96	48.73	58.81	62.60
Vanuatu	61.29	61.63	62.84	64.10	65.31	60.02	61.08
Venezuela, RB	36.72	38.35	38.03	39.23	38.96	36.30	35.51
Vietnam	58.66	59.45	59.52	60.05	60.44	60.35	62.10
West Bank and Gaza	51.36	50.88	50.94	51.55	53.33	53.71	54.83
Yemen, Rep.	56.80	56.74	57.79	55.51	57.02	44.53	44.54
Zambia	57.57	57.28	57.35	60.79	62.15	60.69	60.50
Zimbabwe	41.70	41.80	45.40	43.84	45.16	47.33	48.17

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