In September 2021, World Bank Group management decided to improve upon and replace Doing Business. However, the Doing Business website continues to be publicly available as an archive of knowledge and data.
Launched in 2002, the Doing Business project provided objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The project looked at domestic small and medium-size companies and measured the rules affecting them throughout their lifecycles.
The first Doing Business report, published in 2003, covered five indicator sets and 133 economies. The final study, published in 2019, covered 11 indicator sets and 190 economies.
A related project, Subnational Doing Business, was designed to capture differences in local business regulations and their enforcement across locations in a single economy. Since 2005, Subnational Doing Business has benchmarked almost 600 locations in more than 80 economies, including China, India, Mexico, and Nigeria.
Quick Links
- Historical data - Doing Business - with scores (Excel)
- Stata files for score replication
Historical data (.dta) | Best and worst performance (.dta) | Weights (.dta) | Code for score replication (.do) - Reforms since Doing Business 2005 (Excel)
- Explanation of Doing Business methodology
- Full list of research papers related to Doing Business topics (Excel)