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Best Countries to Start a Business 2026

Ranking 229 countries by ease of doing business, startup culture, and entrepreneurship support. Find the most business-friendly destinations for founders and freelancers.

#	Country	Score
1	Cayman Islands	88.6
2	British Virgin Islands	85.8
3	Bermuda	85.3
4	Turks and Caicos Islands	83.3
5	Hong Kong	83.1
6	Anguilla	79.9
7	Singapore	79.1
8	Niue	78.8
9	Gibraltar	78.3
10	Bahrain	75.4
11	Ireland	74.8
12	Slovenia	74.3
13	Wallis and Futuna	74.3
14	Macau	73.8
15	Barbados	73.7
16	Georgia	72.6
17	Kazakhstan	71.8
18	Bahamas	71.6
19	Faroe Islands	71.3
20	Bulgaria	71.3
21	Kyrgyzstan	71.2
22	New Zealand	70.5
23	North Macedonia	69.9
24	Liechtenstein	69.8
25	Canada	69.6
26	Latvia	69.4
27	Mauritius	69.2
28	Denmark	69.2
29	Lithuania	68.6
30	Norway	68.6
31	Hungary	68.5
32	Armenia	68.2
33	Kuwait	67.4
34	Montenegro	67.2
35	Andorra	67.1
36	Marshall Islands	66.8
37	United Arab Emirates	66.8
38	Sweden	66.7
39	Qatar	66.4
40	Kosovo	66.4
41	United Kingdom	66.3
42	Greenland	65.9
43	Nauru	65.7
44	Romania	65.6
45	Réunion	65.1
46	French Guiana	65.1
47	Guadeloupe	65.1
48	Martinique	65.1
49	Estonia	64.7
50	Monaco	64.7
51	Guam	64.7
52	Northern Mariana Islands	64.7
53	United States	64.6
54	Switzerland	64.4
55	Iceland	64.4
56	Uzbekistan	64.3
57	France	64.1
58	Finland	64
59	Ukraine	63.5
60	Oman	63.5
61	Russia	63.5
62	Micronesia	63.4
63	Brunei	63.3
64	Moldova	63.3
65	Australia	63.2
66	Vanuatu	63.1
67	Netherlands	63.1
68	Mayotte	63.1
69	Saint-Martin	63.1
70	San Marino	63
71	Czech Republic	63
72	U.S. Virgin Islands	62.9
73	Serbia	62.8
74	Portugal	62.7
75	Palau	62.7
76	Cyprus	62.3
77	Tahiti	62.1
78	Chinese Taipei	62
79	Azerbaijan	61.5
80	Belarus	61
81	Luxembourg	61
82	Bosnia and Herzegovina	60.5
83	Albania	59.4
84	Botswana	59.3
85	Austria	58.9
86	Mongolia	58.9
87	Croatia	58.8
88	Cook Islands	58.6
89	Maldives	58.6
90	South Africa	58.3
91	Curacao	58.2
92	Greece	57.7
93	Tunisia	57.7
94	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	57.6
95	Belgium	57.5
96	China	57.4
97	Iraq	57.4
98	Cape Verde	57
99	Israel	56.8
100	Slovakia	56.4
101	Aruba	56.2
102	Spain	56.1
103	Montserrat	55.9
104	Samoa	55.8
105	Jamaica	55.7
106	Japan	55.7
107	Turkmenistan	55.6
108	Trinidad and Tobago	55.6
109	Timor-Leste	55.4
110	Panama	54.9
111	Vietnam	54.4
112	American Samoa	54.4
113	Italy	54.3
114	Puerto Rico	53.4
115	Bhutan	53.4
116	Chile	53.2
117	Thailand	53.1
118	India	52.2
119	Fiji	52.1
120	Germany	52
121	Afghanistan	51.9
122	Turkey	51.5
123	New Caledonia	51.5
124	Guyana	51.4
125	Saudi Arabia	51
126	Uruguay	51
127	Antigua and Barbuda	50.9
128	Sint Maarten	50.7
129	Madagascar	50.5
130	Korea Republic	50.4
131	Indonesia	50.3
132	Ivory Coast	49.9
133	Poland	49.9
134	Egypt	49.8
135	Iran	49.8
136	Tonga	49.5
137	Malaysia	49.3
138	Jordan	48.7
139	Ghana	48.6
140	Sri Lanka	48.4
141	Dominica	48.3
142	Argentina	48.2
143	Rwanda	47.1
144	Paraguay	46.9
145	Lebanon	46.8
146	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	46.7
147	Algeria	46.6
148	Grenada	46.4
149	Peru	46.4
150	Seychelles	46.3
151	Pakistan	46
152	Brazil	46
153	Dominican Republic	45.9
154	Mexico	45.8
155	Ecuador	45.7
156	Tajikistan	45.5
157	Lesotho	45.4
158	Costa Rica	45.2
159	Saint Lucia	45.1
160	Philippines	45
161	Benin	44.8
162	Saint Kitts and Nevis	44.8
163	Malta	44.5
164	Nepal	44.1
165	Nigeria	44
166	Burkina Faso	43.6
167	Bangladesh	43.2
168	Tuvalu	43.2
169	Colombia	43
170	Liberia	43
171	Togo	42.7
172	Senegal	42.6
173	Swaziland	42.4
174	Belize	42.3
175	Palestine	42.2
176	Laos	42
177	Solomon Islands	41.9
178	Guinea-Bissau	41.8
179	Morocco	41.6
180	Mauritania	41.6
181	Somalia	41.5
182	Mali	41.4
183	Tanzania	41.4
184	Papua New Guinea	40.8
185	Western Sahara	40.6
186	Guatemala	40.4
187	Kenya	40.3
188	Congo DR	40.2
189	Zambia	40.2
190	Namibia	40.2
191	Honduras	39.9
192	Burundi	39.8
193	Zanzibar	39.5
194	Djibouti	39.4
195	Congo	39.3
196	Kiribati	39.2
197	Libya	39.2
198	Sierra Leone	39.1
199	São Tomé and Príncipe	39.1
200	Syria	39
201	El Salvador	38.7
202	Gabon	38.7
203	Comoros	38.3
204	Bolivia	38.3
205	Mozambique	38
206	Cambodia	37.7
207	Ethiopia	37.4
208	Uganda	37.3
209	Nicaragua	36.8
210	Niger	36.6
211	Guinea	36.5
212	Malawi	36
213	Yemen	35.8
214	Cameroon	35.3
215	Angola	33.9
216	Myanmar	33.6
217	Zimbabwe	31.8
218	Sudan	31.1
219	Central African Republic	30.8
220	Suriname	30.1
221	Gambia	29.8
222	Equatorial Guinea	29.1
223	Cuba	28.6
224	Haiti	24.4
225	Chad	23.9
226	South Sudan	23.5
227	Eritrea	23.4
228	Korea DPR	17.4
229	Venezuela	14.3

How the Entrepreneurship and Business Score Is Calculated

The overall score is a weighted average across four indicators. Nomadino calculates: entrepreneurship and business score = corporate tax rate × 0.30 + startup costs × 0.25 + labor-market flexibility × 0.25 + company-registration duration × 0.20.

Corporate tax rate: 30%
Startup costs: 25%
Labor-market flexibility: 25%
Company-registration duration: 20%

Nomadino uses normalized indicator scores on a 0 to 100 scale, where higher means better conditions for starting and operating a business. Corporate tax receives the highest weight because it affects profits continuously and is more relevant over the long term than a one-off administrative step.

Startup costs are weighted strongly because they directly affect small founders, self-employed people and new companies. Labor-market flexibility is also weighted highly once a company wants to hire employees, build project teams or use flexible contract forms. Registration duration remains important, but receives a slightly lower weight because a difference of a few days is less persistent than taxes, entry costs and operational flexibility. If an indicator is removed with the checkbox, Nomadino divides by the sum of the remaining weights, preserving the relative importance of the active indicators.