Doing Business, through its registering
property indicators, measures the
efficiency of property registration
systems through the time, cost and
number of procedures required to
transfer a commercial property. These
indicators do not provide information
on the overall quality of land administration
systems. This year, for the
first time, Doing Business has collected
preliminary data in 170 economies
on the reliability, transparency and
coverage of land registration systems
and on land dispute resolution (figure
7.1). Next year Doing Business will refine
the newly collected data and intends
to add a new indicator on the quality
of land administration to its current
set of registering property indicators.