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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.

Source: World Development Indicators61 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
52.5% of firms
Median: 48.9% of firms
Countries Covered
61
with available data
Highest
Brunei Darussalam
97.2% of firms
Lowest
Qatar
0.0% of firms
Top 5 Countries
1Brunei Darussalam97.2% of firms
2Guinea97.1% of firms
3Kenya91.8% of firms
4Zimbabwe88.4% of firms
5Djibouti71.6% of firms
By Region
Key Findings
  • 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

Low (0.0% of firms)High (97.2% of firms)

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
1Brunei Darussalam97.2% of firms
2Guinea97.1% of firms
3Kenya91.8% of firms
4Zimbabwe88.4% of firms
5Djibouti71.6% of firms
6Lithuania71.2% of firms
7Thailand70.0% of firms
8Saint Lucia70.0% of firms
9Czech Republic69.6% of firms
10Belgium68.6% of firms
11Panama67.9% of firms
12Grenada66.7% of firms
13Austria66.6% of firms
14Poland64.2% of firms
15Ethiopia63.8% of firms
16Nigeria63.5% of firms
17Germany63.4% of firms
18Dominican Republic63.1% of firms
19Gabon62.1% of firms
20Egypt60.2% of firms
21Kiribati59.3% of firms
22Antigua and Barbuda58.7% of firms
23Liberia58.6% of firms
24France57.8% of firms
25Australia57.5% of firms
26Solomon Islands55.9% of firms
27Belize55.7% of firms
28Fiji55.1% of firms
29Mauritania53.6% of firms
30Kuwait53.3% of firms
31Mongolia48.9% of firms
32Brazil48.8% of firms
33Guatemala48.8% of firms
34India48.2% of firms
35Uganda48.2% of firms
36Mozambique48.1% of firms
37Malawi47.9% of firms
38Trinidad and Tobago47.4% of firms
39Netherlands46.7% of firms
40Denmark44.4% of firms
41Suriname44.4% of firms
42Comoros44.2% of firms
43Chile42.1% of firms
44Maldives42.1% of firms
45Niger42.0% of firms
46Albania41.9% of firms
47Switzerland41.9% of firms
48Norway41.6% of firms
49Saint Vincent and the Grenadines41.6% of firms
50Burundi41.3% of firms
51Finland41.0% of firms
52Sri Lanka39.9% of firms
53Saudi Arabia38.3% of firms
54Afghanistan34.6% of firms
55Somalia29.9% of firms
56Zambia29.3% of firms
57Sao Tome and Principe24.8% of firms
58Japan24.3% of firms
59Bolivia23.3% of firms
60Guinea-Bissau14.2% of firms
61Qatar0.0% of firms
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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).

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