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TABLE 1.4 The 50 economies narrowing the distance to frontier the most since 2005
Distance to frontier (percentage points)
Economy Region 2005 2013 Improvement Total regulatory reforms a
1 Rwanda SSA 37.4 70.5 33.1 34
2 Georgia ECA 48.4 80.8 32.3 36
3 Belarus ECA 41.1 67.1 26.0 29
4 Ukraine ECA 38.2 61.3 23.1 26
5 Macedonia, FYR ECA 54.3 74.2 19.9 31
6 Burkina Faso SSA 30.6 50.0 19.4 20
7 Kyrgyz Republic ECA 44.9 63.7 18.8 14
8 Tajikistan ECA 30.8 48.4 17.6 14
9 Burundi SSA 33.2 50.6 17.4 21
10 Egypt, Arab Rep. MENA 38.0 55.1 17.1 23
11 Mali SSA 34.3 51.2 16.9 16
12 Sierra Leone SSA 37.3 54.1 16.8 20
13 China EAP 45.0 60.9 15.9 18
14 Poland OECD 57.6 73.4 15.8 22
15 Azerbaijan ECA 49.0 64.6 15.6 18
16 Colombia LAC 55.1 70.3 15.2 27
17 Ghana SSA 52.0 67.0 15.0 12
18 Guinea-Bissau SSA 32.9 47.2 14.2 7
19 Croatia ECA 49.1 63.2 14.0 23
20 Côte d'Ivoire SSA 36.5 50.2 13.7 14
21 Guatemala LAC 51.1 64.7 13.6 18
22 Kazakhstan ECA 48.4 61.8 13.5 20
23 Armenia ECA 56.2 69.7 13.5 23
24 Madagascar SSA 41.9 54.2 12.3 19
25 Mauritius SSA 61.4 73.5 12.0 23
26 Angola SSA 32.5 44.5 12.0 9
27 Senegal SSA 35.7 47.6 12.0 11
28 Morocco MENA 52.0 63.9 11.8 18
29 Russian Federation ECA 49.9 61.6 11.6 22
30 Togo SSA 36.7 48.1 11.3 9
31 Yemen, Rep. MENA 43.9 55.1 11.2 7
32 Saudi Arabia MENA 60.1 71.3 11.1 19
33 Lao PDR EAP 37.2 48.3 11.1 12
34 Czech Republic OECD 57.6 68.7 11.1 22
35 Moldova ECA 54.5 65.6 11.1 21
36 Timor-Leste EAP 27.9 38.8 10.9 6
37 India SAS 40.7 51.3 10.6 17
38 Mozambique SSA 45.0 55.5 10.5 12
39 Niger SSA 31.8 42.3 10.5 11
40 Peru LAC 60.0 70.4 10.4 19
41 São Tomé and Principe SSA 35.7 46.0 10.3 5
42 Costa Rica LAC 49.7 60.0 10.3 12
43 Malaysia EAP 71.4 81.6 10.2 17
44 Uzbekistan ECA 38.2 48.3 10.0 19
45 Slovenia OECD 60.0 70.0 10.0 17
46 Lesotho SSA 46.0 56.0 10.0 9
47 Zambia SSA 54.8 64.8 10.0 10
48 Mexico LAC 61.9 71.8 9.9 19
49 Cambodia EAP 40.3 50.1 9.8 8
50 Solomon Islands EAP 51.3 61.0 9.8 5
Note: Rankings are based on the absolute difference for each economy between its distance to frontier in 2005 and that in 2013. The data refer to the 174 economies
included in Doing Business 2006 (2005). Fifteen economies were added in subsequent years. The distance to frontier measure shows how far on average an economy is
at a point in time from the best performance achieved by any economy on each Doing Business indicator since 2003 or the first year in which data for the indicator were
collected. The measure is normalized to range between 0 and 100, with 100 representing the frontier. EAP = East Asia and the Pacific; ECA = Eastern Europe and Central
Asia; LAC = Latin America and the Caribbean; MENA = Middle East and North Africa; OECD = OECD high income; SAS = South Asia; SSA = Sub-Saharan Africa.
a. Reforms making it easier to do business as recorded by Doing Business since 2005.
Source: Doing Business database.