Time spent dealing with the requirements of government regulations (% of senior management time)
Compare time spent dealing with the requirements of government regulations (% of senior management time) across 61 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 World Bank reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •61 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite % observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Comoros has the highest published value (30.0747 %).
- •Kiribati has the lowest published value (0.13488 %).
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: 7.2%)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
Average percentage of senior management’s time that is spent in a typical week dealing with requirements imposed by government regulations (eg. Taxes, customs, labor regulations, licensing and registration), including dealings with officials, completing forms, et cetera.
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
Average percentage of senior management’s time that is spent in a typical week dealing with requirements imposed by government regulations (eg. Taxes, customs, labor regulations, licensing and registration), including dealings with officials, completing forms, et cetera.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Comoros | 30.1% |
| 2 | Malawi | 28.9% |
| 3 | France | 15.5% |
| 4 | Gabon | 14.9% |
| 5 | Belize | 14.6% |
| 6 | Bolivia | 14.6% |
| 7 | Antigua and Barbuda | 14.3% |
| 8 | Brazil | 14.0% |
| 9 | Solomon Islands | 12.4% |
| 10 | Guinea | 11.7% |
| 11 | Sao Tome and Principe | 10.5% |
| 12 | Fiji | 10.4% |
| 13 | Belgium | 10.4% |
| 14 | Afghanistan | 9.7% |
| 15 | Germany | 9.6% |
| 16 | Poland | 8.8% |
| 17 | Mozambique | 8.2% |
| 18 | Austria | 8.1% |
| 19 | Australia | 8.1% |
| 20 | Lithuania | 7.8% |
| 21 | Chile | 7.3% |
| 22 | Denmark | 7.2% |
| 23 | Mongolia | 7.2% |
| 24 | Norway | 7.1% |
| 25 | Czech Republic | 6.9% |
| 26 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 6.9% |
| 27 | Zambia | 6.8% |
| 28 | Netherlands | 6.7% |
| 29 | Kenya | 6.7% |
| 30 | Guatemala | 6.5% |
| 31 | Maldives | 6.5% |
| 32 | Suriname | 6.2% |
| 33 | Switzerland | 6.0% |
| 34 | Mauritania | 5.8% |
| 35 | Zimbabwe | 5.3% |
| 36 | Burundi | 5.0% |
| 37 | Djibouti | 5.0% |
| 38 | Dominican Republic | 4.9% |
| 39 | Somalia | 4.9% |
| 40 | Saint Lucia | 4.8% |
| 41 | Niger | 4.8% |
| 42 | Finland | 4.7% |
| 43 | Qatar | 4.4% |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 4.1% |
| 45 | Guinea-Bissau | 3.6% |
| 46 | Uganda | 3.5% |
| 47 | Panama | 3.4% |
| 48 | Nigeria | 3.1% |
| 49 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3.1% |
| 50 | Albania | 2.7% |
| 51 | India | 2.3% |
| 52 | Ethiopia | 1.9% |
| 53 | Grenada | 1.8% |
| 54 | Sri Lanka | 1.8% |
| 55 | Brunei Darussalam | 1.8% |
| 56 | Egypt | 1.7% |
| 57 | Kuwait | 1.3% |
| 58 | Liberia | 1.2% |
| 59 | Japan | 1.2% |
| 60 | Thailand | 0.3% |
| 61 | Kiribati | 0.1% |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).
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