East Asia and Pacific Compared by Economy > Companies > Ease of doing business index > 1=most business-friendly regulations per million

DEFINITION: Ease of doing business index (1=most business-friendly regulations). Ease of doing business ranks economies from 1 to 189, with first place being the best. A high ranking (a low numerical rank) means that the regulatory environment is conducive to business operation. The index averages the country's percentile rankings on 10 topics covered in the World Bank's Doing Business. The ranking on each topic is the simple average of the percentile rankings on its component indicators. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Palau	5,492.92	2012
2	Marshall Islands	2,093.05	2012
3	Federated States of Micronesia	1,450.75	2012
4	Kiribati	1,160.88	2012
5	Tonga	571.75	2012
6	Vanuatu	315.45	2012
7	Samoa	291.18	2012
8	Brunei	191.64	2012
9	Solomon Islands	167.4	2012
10	East Timor	137.99	2012
11	Fiji	66.31	2012
12	Mongolia	28.61	2012
13	Laos	24.53	2012
14	Papua New Guinea	15.07	2012
15	Cambodia	9.08	2012
16	Burma	3.45	2012
17	Philippines	1.38	2012
18	Vietnam	1.1	2012
19	New Zealand	0.677	2012
20	Indonesia	0.47	2012
21	Australia	0.441	2012
22	Malaysia	0.274	2012
23	Thailand	0.27	2012
24	Singapore	0.188	2012
25	Japan	0.18	2012
26	South Korea	0.12	2012
27	China	0.0733	2012

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