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Firms competing against unregistered firms (% of firms)

Compare firms competing against unregistered firms (% of firms) across 61 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 World Bank reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
42.5%
Median: 43.9%
Countries Covered
61
with available data
Highest
Zimbabwe
82.9%
Lowest
Qatar
1.9%
Top 5 Countries
1Zimbabwe82.9%
2Guinea-Bissau80.0%
3Guinea78.6%
4Comoros77.8%
5Bolivia75.3%
By Region
North America62.9%(1 countries)
Other55.7%(33 countries)
South America55.2%(2 countries)
Africa44.0%(4 countries)
Oceania37.0%(1 countries)
Key Findings
  • 61 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite % observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
  • Zimbabwe has the highest published value (82.9165 %).
  • Qatar has the lowest published value (1.9264 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (1.9%)High (82.9%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 42.5%)

North America (1)
Other (33)
South America (2)
Africa (4)
Oceania (1)
Europe (12)
Asia (8)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Percentage of firms competing against unregistered or informal firms.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 World Bank slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Percentage of firms competing against unregistered or informal firms.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Zimbabwe82.9%
2Guinea-Bissau80.0%
3Guinea78.6%
4Comoros77.8%
5Bolivia75.3%
6Uganda70.6%
7Sao Tome and Principe66.8%
8Albania65.3%
9Niger64.8%
10Dominican Republic64.0%
11Saint Lucia63.6%
12Gabon63.2%
13Guatemala62.9%
14Brazil61.6%
15Saint Vincent and the Grenadines60.0%
16Malawi58.0%
17Suriname56.7%
18Liberia56.4%
19Nigeria56.4%
20Trinidad and Tobago56.1%
21Kenya54.1%
22Belize54.0%
23Antigua and Barbuda54.0%
24Mozambique53.1%
25Kiribati50.8%
26Mongolia50.4%
27Chile48.8%
28Panama48.8%
29Fiji48.1%
30Brunei Darussalam45.6%
31Zambia43.9%
32Afghanistan43.8%
33Mauritania43.1%
34Egypt41.1%
35Somalia40.9%
36Solomon Islands39.2%
37Australia37.0%
38Grenada36.6%
39Lithuania34.6%
40Maldives33.7%
41Djibouti30.3%
42Thailand29.8%
43Poland29.7%
44Sri Lanka27.5%
45Burundi26.4%
46Denmark26.0%
47Czech Republic25.8%
48Ethiopia24.5%
49Norway21.6%
50France19.3%
51India18.5%
52Switzerland16.9%
53Finland14.5%
54Belgium13.0%
55Kuwait11.5%
56Netherlands9.3%
57Saudi Arabia9.0%
58Japan5.9%
59Germany5.7%
60Austria5.6%
61Qatar1.9%
Showing 61 of 61 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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