Arab Region | Ease of doing business, score (Arab countries,2016–2020)
Ease of doing business score (DB17-19 methodology) captures the gap between an economy’s performance and a measure of best practice across the entire sample of 41 indicators for 10 Doing Business topics, namely starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.
| Location | Year | value |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 2016 | 44.2 |
| Algeria | 2017 | 46.1 |
| Algeria | 2018 | 46.2 |
| Algeria | 2019 | 48.5 |
| Algeria | 2020 | 48.6 |
| Bahrain | 2016 | 66.6 |
| Bahrain | 2017 | 68.7 |
| Bahrain | 2018 | 69.1 |
| Bahrain | 2019 | 70.1 |
| Bahrain | 2020 | 76 |
| Comoros | 2016 | 46.2 |
| Comoros | 2017 | 46.4 |
| Comoros | 2018 | 46.9 |
| Comoros | 2019 | 47 |
| Comoros | 2020 | 47.9 |
| Djibouti | 2016 | 44.3 |
| Djibouti | 2017 | 47.2 |
| Djibouti | 2018 | 50.9 |
| Djibouti | 2019 | 58.4 |
| Djibouti | 2020 | 60.5 |
| Egypt | 2016 | 54.7 |
| Egypt | 2017 | 55.5 |
| Egypt | 2018 | 55.8 |
| Egypt | 2019 | 58.5 |
| Egypt | 2020 | 60.1 |
| Iraq | 2016 | 42.9 |
| Iraq | 2017 | 44.1 |
| Iraq | 2018 | 44.6 |
| Iraq | 2019 | 44.7 |
| Iraq | 2020 | 44.7 |
| Jordan | 2016 | 56.7 |
| Jordan | 2017 | 57 |
| Jordan | 2018 | 59.9 |
| Jordan | 2019 | 61.3 |
| Jordan | 2020 | 69 |
| Kuwait | 2016 | 60.7 |
| Kuwait | 2017 | 60 |
| Kuwait | 2018 | 61.8 |
| Kuwait | 2019 | 62.6 |
| Kuwait | 2020 | 67.4 |
| Lebanon | 2016 | 54.7 |
| Lebanon | 2017 | 54.5 |
| Lebanon | 2018 | 54.4 |
| Lebanon | 2019 | 54.4 |
| Lebanon | 2020 | 54.3 |
| Libya | 2016 | 32.6 |
| Libya | 2017 | 32.5 |
| Libya | 2018 | 32.5 |
| Libya | 2019 | 32.7 |
| Libya | 2020 | 32.7 |
| Mauritania | 2016 | 43.8 |
| Mauritania | 2017 | 46.9 |
| Mauritania | 2018 | 48.4 |
| Mauritania | 2019 | 49.4 |
| Mauritania | 2020 | 51.1 |
| Morocco | 2016 | 67.4 |
| Morocco | 2017 | 69.2 |
| Morocco | 2018 | 69.2 |
| Morocco | 2019 | 71.7 |
| Morocco | 2020 | 73.4 |
| Oman | 2016 | 66.3 |
| Oman | 2017 | 68.1 |
| Oman | 2018 | 68.6 |
| Oman | 2019 | 68.8 |
| Oman | 2020 | 70 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2016 | 59.2 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2017 | 59.4 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2018 | 62.1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2019 | 63.8 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2020 | 71.6 |
| Somalia | 2016 | 20.2 |
| Somalia | 2017 | 20.3 |
| Somalia | 2018 | 20 |
| Somalia | 2019 | 20 |
| Somalia | 2020 | 20 |
| Qatar | 2016 | 66.5 |
| Qatar | 2017 | 65.4 |
| Qatar | 2018 | 66 |
| Qatar | 2019 | 66.7 |
| Qatar | 2020 | 68.7 |
| Sudan | 2016 | 45.5 |
| Sudan | 2017 | 44.8 |
| Sudan | 2018 | 45 |
| Sudan | 2019 | 48 |
| Sudan | 2020 | 44.8 |
| Syria | 2016 | 43 |
| Syria | 2017 | 41.4 |
| Syria | 2018 | 41.4 |
| Syria | 2019 | 41.5 |
| Syria | 2020 | 42 |
| Tunisia | 2016 | 64.6 |
| Tunisia | 2017 | 65.5 |
| Tunisia | 2018 | 65.3 |
| Tunisia | 2019 | 67.2 |
| Tunisia | 2020 | 68.7 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2016 | 76.3 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2017 | 77.4 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2018 | 79.3 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2019 | 81.6 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2020 | 80.9 |
Arab Region | Ease of doing business, score (Arab countries,2016–2020)
Ease of doing business score (DB17-19 methodology) captures the gap between an economy’s performance and a measure of best practice across the entire sample of 41 indicators for 10 Doing Business topics, namely starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.