Regulatory quality in North America

29 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
78.6 /100
Greenland
Median country
56.5 /100
half above, half below
Range
31.8 to 78.6
Haiti - Greenland

How to read it

Across 29 countries in North America, the highest value is in Greenland (78.6 /100) and the lowest in Haiti (31.8 /100).

The median country is at 56.5 /100: half are above, half below.

Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance.

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Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators · licence

Regulatory quality over time

/100

Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Greenland78.6
2Canada76.3
3United States76.2
4United States Virgin Islands72.2
5Cayman Islands71.8
6Aruba70.3
7Puerto Rico65.2
8Antigua and Barbuda64.9
9Bermuda64.8
10Costa Rica64.0
11Saint Kitts and Nevis62.4
12Barbados61.8
13Dominican Republic58.1
14Saint Lucia57.7
15Saint Vincent and the Grenadines56.5
16Jamaica56.3
17Dominica55.8
18Grenada55.6
19Panama53.7
20Bahamas53.2
21El Salvador52.1
22Mexico51.8
23Trinidad and Tobago51.6
24Guatemala50.0
25Belize47.8
26Honduras45.0
27Nicaragua39.2
28Cuba32.2
29Haiti31.8
World Bank, WGI · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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