Azerbaijan Tops Financial Services Category in World Bank Business Ready Assessment

Jerusalem, 30 December, 2025 (TPS-IL) -- Baku (AZERTAC) – The World Bank has released its “Business Ready” (B-READY) report for 2025. The Central Bank told AZERTAC that this report, in which Azerbaijan is assessed for the first time, notes the country’s high results in the field of financial services. Thus, Azerbaijan ranked first among the 101 countries included in the assessment, scoring 87.2 points out of a possible 100 in the “financial services” component.

The assessment scores range from 0 to 100. This indicator is composed of three sub-indicators: regulatory framework, public services, and operational efficiency. The sub-indicators, regulatory framework, were rated at 94.1 points, public services at 89.8 points, and operational efficiency at 77.5 points.

It should be noted that the “Business Ready” report is an international comparative assessment project prepared by the World Bank. The assessment in the report is carried out on ten topics that make up the life cycle of a company and its market presence during the opening, operation (or expansion) and closure (or reorganization) of a business. The score for each topic is formed by assessing three sub-indicators: regulatory framework, public services and operational efficiency. One of the ten topics assessed is financial services.

The report, published since 2024, covers most of the world’s economies and provides a quantitative assessment of the business environment in terms of private sector development. The report takes into account the regulatory environment, the accessibility of government services for companies and markets, as well as the operational efficiency of these services.

The current report presents official data on business readiness for 101 economies. The document notes that 164 countries are expected to be assessed by the end of 2026.