Distance to frontier score (0=lowest performance to 100=frontier) - Country Ranking - Europe

Definition: Distance to frontier score illustrates the distance of an economy to the "frontier," which represents the best performance observed on each Doing Business topic across all economies and years included since 2005. An economy's distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. For example, a score of 75 in 2012 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 2013 would indicate the economy is improving.

Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Denmark 85.29 2019
2 United Kingdom 83.55 2019
3 Norway 82.63 2019
4 Sweden 81.99 2019
5 Lithuania 81.62 2019
6 North Macedonia 80.75 2019
7 Estonia 80.62 2019
8 Latvia 80.28 2019
9 Finland 80.18 2019
10 Germany 79.71 2019
11 Ireland 79.58 2019
12 Iceland 78.96 2019
13 Austria 78.75 2019
14 Spain 77.94 2019
15 France 76.80 2019
16 Turkey 76.79 2019
17 Switzerland 76.62 2019
18 Slovenia 76.52 2019
19 Portugal 76.47 2019
20 Poland 76.38 2019
21 Czech Republic 76.34 2019
22 Netherlands 76.10 2019
23 Serbia 75.65 2019
24 Slovak Republic 75.59 2019
25 Belgium 74.99 2019
26 Moldova 74.39 2019
27 Belarus 74.29 2019
28 Montenegro 73.82 2019
29 Croatia 73.62 2019
30 Hungary 73.42 2019
31 Cyprus 73.35 2019
32 Romania 73.33 2019
33 Italy 72.85 2019
34 Bulgaria 71.97 2019
35 Ukraine 70.21 2019
36 Luxembourg 69.60 2019
37 Greece 68.42 2019
38 Albania 67.75 2019
39 Malta 66.14 2019
40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 65.44 2019
41 Liechtenstein 64.84 2019
42 San Marino 64.19 2019

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Development Relevance: The distance to frontier score aids in assessing the absolute level of regulatory performance and how it improves over time. 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. 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.

Aggregation method: Unweighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Data are presented for the survey year instead of publication year. Data before 2013 are not comparable with data from 2013 onward due to methodological changes.