Regulatory quality in North America

29 countries in North America, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
80.3 /100
Canada
Median country
57.6 /100
half above, half below
Range
28.3 to 80.3
Cuba - Canada

How to read it

Across 29 countries in North America, the highest value is in Canada (80.3 /100) and the lowest in Cuba (28.3 /100).

The median country is at 57.6 /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

2025
In chart Share of the highest value
1Canada80.3
2United States Virgin Islands74.2
3Greenland73.9
4United States72.8
5Aruba72.3
6Cayman Islands67.1
7Antigua and Barbuda66.2
8Bermuda66.0
9Saint Kitts and Nevis65.5
10Costa Rica64.8
11Barbados62.3
12Puerto Rico60.3
13Saint Lucia59.3
14Dominican Republic58.7
15Saint Vincent and the Grenadines57.6
16Dominica56.7
17Jamaica55.8
18Grenada55.0
19Bahamas54.0
20Panama53.4
21El Salvador53.1
22Trinidad and Tobago52.4
23Mexico51.5
24Guatemala49.7
25Belize46.1
26Honduras44.6
27Nicaragua39.3
28Haiti29.5
29Cuba28.3
World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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