Ease of doing business in North America 2020

As of 2020, doing business in North America was the easiest in the United States. The United States scored 84 points, the highest among 23 North American countries and the sixth highest in the world. Canada and Mexico followed, with 79.6 and 72.4 points. Worldwide, Canada and Mexico ranked 23rd and 60th, respectively. By contrast, Haiti and Grenada received the lowest scores in North America and some of the lowest scores among the 190 countries taken into consideration for the study.

Ease of doing business score in North America as of 2020, by country

Characteristic	Ranking score
United States	84
Canada	79.6
Mexico	72.4
Jamaica	69.7
Costa Rica	69.2
Panama	66.6
El Salvador	65.3
Saint Lucia	63.7
Guatemala	62.6
Trinidad and Tobago	61.3
Dominica	60.5
Antigua and Barbuda	60.3
Dominican Republic	60
Bahamas	59.9
Barbados	57.9
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	57.1
Honduras	56.3
Belize	55.5
Saint Kitts and Nevis	54.6
Nicaragua	54.4
Grenada	53.4
Haiti	40.7

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Release date

October 2021

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Region

North America

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

Data for Cuba not available.
The ease of doing business (EODB) score captures the gap between an economy’s performance and is a measure of best practice across the entire sample of 41 indicators for 10 topics. The ranking complements the ease of doing business score by providing information about an economy’s performance in business regulation relative to the performance of other economies as measured by Doing Business. The ranking is out of 190 countries.

The ease of doing business rankings are benchmarked from 1 May 2018 on, and based on the average of each economy’s ease of doing business scores for the 10 topics included in the aggregate ranking.

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