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	ISO	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Country
Afghanistan	AFG	..	..	9	9	9
Albania	ALB	41	41	41	39	36
Algeria	DZA	24	24	24	24	24
Angola	AGO	119	119	119	119	119
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	..	..	..	21	21
Argentina	ARG	67	31	31	31	31
Armenia	ARM	19	19	19	18	18
Australia	AUS	2	2	2	2	2
Austria	AUT	28	28	28	28	28
Azerbaijan	AZE	106	122	114	52	30
Bangladesh	BGD	50	50	50	50	74
Belarus	BLR	79	79	79	69	48
Belgium	BEL	56	34	34	27	4
Belize	BLZ	..	..	..	45	44
Benin	BEN	32	31	31	31	31
Bhutan	BTN	..	62	62	62	48
Bolivia	BOL	60	60	50	50	50
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	59	54	54	54	54
Botswana	BWA	108	108	108	108	108
Brazil	BRA	152	152	152	152	152
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	..	..	..	..	116
Bulgaria	BGR	32	32	32	32	32
Burkina Faso	BFA	40	40	40	34	18
Burundi	BDI	43	43	43	43	43
Cambodia	KHM	94	94	86	86	86
Cameroon	CMR	44	44	44	44	37
Canada	CAN	3	3	3	3	3
Cape Verde	CPV	..	..	..	52	52
Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	62	58	45	45	40
Central African Rep	CAF	14	14	14	14	14
Chad	TCD	75	75	75	75	75
Chile	CHL	27	27	27	27	27
China	CHN	48	48	48	35	35
Colombia	COL	60	43	43	44	42
Comoros	COM	..	..	..	23	23
Congo	COG	37	37	37	37	37
Congo, Dem Rep	COD	188	155	155	155	155
Costa Rica	CRI	77	77	77	77	77
Croatia	HRV	49	49	49	45	40
Czech Rep	CZE	40	40	40	24	17
Denmark	DNK	7	7	6	6	6
Djibouti	DJI	..	..	..	37	37
Dominica	DMA	..	..	..	19	19
Dominican Rep	DOM	77	77	74	72	22
Ecuador	ECU	92	92	69	65	65
Egypt	EGY	37	37	22	19	9
El Salvador	SLV	115	115	40	26	26
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	..	..	..	136	136
Eritrea	ERI	..	..	84	84	84
Estonia	EST	..	72	35	35	7
Ethiopia	ETH	44	32	32	16	16
Fiji	FJI	..	45	46	46	46
Finland	FIN	31	14	14	14	14
France	FRA	41	7	7	7	7
Gabon	GAB	..	..	..	58	58
Gambia	GMB	..	..	..	27	32
Georgia	GEO	25	25	21	16	11
Germany	DEU	45	45	24	24	18
Ghana	GHA	85	85	81	81	42
Greece	GRC	38	38	38	38	38
Grenada	GRD	..	..	..	20	20
Guatemala	GTM	39	39	39	30	26
Guinea	GIN	41	41	41	41	41
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	..	..	..	233	233
Guyana	GUY	..	..	46	46	44
Haiti	HTI	202	202	202	202	202
Honduras	HND	62	62	62	44	21
Hong Kong	HKG	11	11	11	11	11
Hungary	HUN	52	52	38	38	16
Iceland	ISL	..	..	5	5	5
India	IND	89	89	71	35	33
Indonesia	IDN	168	151	151	97	105
Iran, Islamic Rep	IRN	48	48	47	47	47
Iraq	IRQ	..	..	77	77	77
Ireland	IRL	18	18	18	13	13
Israel	ISR	34	34	34	34	34
Italy	ITA	23	13	13	13	13
Jamaica	JAM	31	31	8	8	8
Japan	JPN	31	31	31	23	23
Jordan	JOR	81	28	18	18	14
Kazakhstan	KAZ	26	26	25	21	21
Kenya	KEN	60	47	54	54	44
Kiribati	KIR	..	21	21	21	21
Korea, Rep	KOR	17	17	17	17	17
Kuwait	KWT	35	35	35	35	35
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	21	21	21	21	21
Lao People's Dem Rep	LAO	198	198	198	163	103
Latvia	LVA	16	16	16	16	16
Lebanon	LBN	46	46	46	46	46
Lesotho	LSO	92	92	92	73	73
Liberia	LBR	..	..	..	..	99
Lithuania	LTU	26	26	26	26	26
Luxembourg	LUX	..	..	..	..	26
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	48	48	48	18	15
Madagascar	MDG	67	44	38	21	7
Malawi	MWI	43	37	37	37	37
Malaysia	MYS	30	30	30	30	24
Maldives	MDV	..	9	9	9	9
Mali	MLI	42	42	42	42	26
Marshall Islands	MHL	..	17	17	17	17
Mauritania	MRT	82	82	82	82	65
Mauritius	MUS	..	..	46	46	7
Mexico	MEX	58	58	58	27	27
Micronesia, Fed States	FSM	..	16	16	16	16
Moldova, Rep	MDA	42	30	30	30	23
Mongolia	MNG	31	20	20	20	20
Montenegro	MNE	..	..	..	24	24
Morocco	MAR	36	12	12	12	12
Mozambique	MOZ	153	153	153	113	29
Namibia	NAM	85	85	95	95	99
Nepal	NPL	31	31	31	31	31
Netherlands	NLD	11	11	11	10	10
New Zealand	NZL	12	12	12	12	12
Nicaragua	NIC	48	39	39	39	39
Niger	NER	35	35	35	24	23
Nigeria	NGA	44	44	43	43	34
Norway	NOR	18	18	8	8	10
Oman	OMN	34	34	34	34	34
Pakistan	PAK	24	24	24	24	24
Palau	PLW	..	24	24	28	28
Palestinian Territories		..	..	93	93	92
Panama	PAN	19	19	19	19	19
Papua New Guinea	PNG	56	56	56	56	56
Paraguay	PRY	74	74	74	74	35
Peru	PER	98	98	102	72	72
Philippines	PHL	60	60	58	58	58
Poland	POL	31	31	31	31	31
Portugal	PRT	78	78	54	8	7
Puerto Rico	PRI	7	7	7	7	7
Romania	ROU	29	28	11	11	14
Russian Federation	RUS	43	37	34	29	29
Rwanda	RWA	18	18	18	16	16
Saint Kitts and Nevis	KNA	..	..	..	46	46
Samoa	WSM	..	42	35	35	35
Sao Tome & Principe	STP	..	..	144	144	144
Saudi Arabia	SAU	71	71	64	39	15
Senegal	SEN	58	58	58	58	58
Serbia	SRB	56	56	23	23	23
Seychelles	SYC	..	..	..	38	38
Sierra Leone	SLE	26	26	26	26	26
Singapore	SGP	8	8	6	6	5
Slovakia	SVK	103	52	25	25	25
Slovenia	SVN	60	60	60	60	60
Solomon Islands	SLB	..	57	57	57	57
South Africa	ZAF	38	38	35	35	31
Spain	ESP	114	114	47	47	47
Sri Lanka	LKA	58	50	50	50	39
St. Lucia	LCA	..	..	..	40	40
St. Vincent & Grenadines	VCT	..	..	..	12	12
Sudan	SDN	..	..	39	39	39
Suriname	SUR	..	..	..	694	694
Swaziland	SWZ	..	..	..	61	61
Sweden	SWE	15	15	15	15	15
Switzerland	CHE	20	20	20	20	20
Syrian Arab Rep	SYR	43	43	43	43	43
Taiwan	TWN	48	48	48	48	48
Tajikistan	TJK	..	..	..	67	49
Tanzania	TZA	31	31	31	30	29
Thailand	THA	33	33	33	33	33
Timor-Leste	TMP	..	..	92	92	82
Togo	TGO	53	53	53	53	53
Tonga	TON	..	32	32	32	32
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	..	..	..	43	43
Tunisia	TUN	11	11	11	11	11
Turkey	TUR	38	6	6	6	6
Uganda	UGA	34	34	34	28	28
Ukraine	UKR	40	34	34	33	27
United Arab Emirates	ARE	62	62	62	62	62
United Kingdom	GBR	13	13	13	13	13
United States	USA	6	6	6	6	6
Uruguay	URY	45	45	45	43	44
Uzbekistan	UZB	29	29	29	29	13
Vanuatu	VUT	..	39	39	39	39
Venezuela	VEN	141	141	141	141	141
Viet Nam	VNM	63	56	50	50	50
Yemen	YEM	72	63	63	63	63
Zambia	ZMB	35	35	35	35	33
Zimbabwe	ZWE	96	96	96	96	96

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Source

The World Bank Group. 2007. Doing Business Custom Datasets. Washington, DC: The World Bank. Available online at http://www.doingbusiness.org/CustomQuery/.