Firms using third-party commercial dispute resolution
Compare firms using third-party commercial dispute resolution across 61 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source dataset.
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Key Insights
- •Coverage: 61 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
- •Published range: 0 to 97.18743896 % of firms.
- •Discovery motivation: Wikimedia most-read surfaced the Saxony-Anhalt election and X trends surfaced political and labor topics, motivating an institutional comparison of how firms resolve disputes.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 52.5% of firms)
About This Statistic
Percentage of firms that use courts, arbitration, mediation, or conciliation to resolve or attempt to resolve their commercial disputes.
MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.
Methodology
Percentage of firms that use courts, arbitration, mediation, or conciliation to resolve or attempt to resolve their commercial disputes.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brunei Darussalam | 97.2% of firms |
| 2 | Guinea | 97.1% of firms |
| 3 | Kenya | 91.8% of firms |
| 4 | Zimbabwe | 88.4% of firms |
| 5 | Djibouti | 71.6% of firms |
| 6 | Lithuania | 71.2% of firms |
| 7 | Thailand | 70.0% of firms |
| 8 | Saint Lucia | 70.0% of firms |
| 9 | Czech Republic | 69.6% of firms |
| 10 | Belgium | 68.6% of firms |
| 11 | Panama | 67.9% of firms |
| 12 | Grenada | 66.7% of firms |
| 13 | Austria | 66.6% of firms |
| 14 | Poland | 64.2% of firms |
| 15 | Ethiopia | 63.8% of firms |
| 16 | Nigeria | 63.5% of firms |
| 17 | Germany | 63.4% of firms |
| 18 | Dominican Republic | 63.1% of firms |
| 19 | Gabon | 62.1% of firms |
| 20 | Egypt | 60.2% of firms |
| 21 | Kiribati | 59.3% of firms |
| 22 | Antigua and Barbuda | 58.7% of firms |
| 23 | Liberia | 58.6% of firms |
| 24 | France | 57.8% of firms |
| 25 | Australia | 57.5% of firms |
| 26 | Solomon Islands | 55.9% of firms |
| 27 | Belize | 55.7% of firms |
| 28 | Fiji | 55.1% of firms |
| 29 | Mauritania | 53.6% of firms |
| 30 | Kuwait | 53.3% of firms |
| 31 | Mongolia | 48.9% of firms |
| 32 | Brazil | 48.8% of firms |
| 33 | Guatemala | 48.8% of firms |
| 34 | India | 48.2% of firms |
| 35 | Uganda | 48.2% of firms |
| 36 | Mozambique | 48.1% of firms |
| 37 | Malawi | 47.9% of firms |
| 38 | Trinidad and Tobago | 47.4% of firms |
| 39 | Netherlands | 46.7% of firms |
| 40 | Denmark | 44.4% of firms |
| 41 | Suriname | 44.4% of firms |
| 42 | Comoros | 44.2% of firms |
| 43 | Chile | 42.1% of firms |
| 44 | Maldives | 42.1% of firms |
| 45 | Niger | 42.0% of firms |
| 46 | Albania | 41.9% of firms |
| 47 | Switzerland | 41.9% of firms |
| 48 | Norway | 41.6% of firms |
| 49 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 41.6% of firms |
| 50 | Burundi | 41.3% of firms |
| 51 | Finland | 41.0% of firms |
| 52 | Sri Lanka | 39.9% of firms |
| 53 | Saudi Arabia | 38.3% of firms |
| 54 | Afghanistan | 34.6% of firms |
| 55 | Somalia | 29.9% of firms |
| 56 | Zambia | 29.3% of firms |
| 57 | Sao Tome and Principe | 24.8% of firms |
| 58 | Japan | 24.3% of firms |
| 59 | Bolivia | 23.3% of firms |
| 60 | Guinea-Bissau | 14.2% of firms |
| 61 | Qatar | 0.0% of firms |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).
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