The ease of doing business ranking compares economies with one another; the distance to frontier score
benchmarks economies with respect to regulatory best practice, showing the absolute distance to the best
performance on each Doing Business indicator.
When compared across years, the distance to frontier score shows how much the regulatory environment for local
entrepreneurs in an economy has changed over time in absolute terms, while the ease of doing business ranking
can show only how much the regulatory environment has changed relative to that in other economies.
The 10 topics included in the ranking in Doing Business 2016: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.
The labor market regulation indicators are not included in this year’s aggregate ease of doing business ranking, but the data are presented in the economy profile.