FACTOID # 3: In Switzerland, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to buy a kilogram of beef - one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator.
 
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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1  Panama:79 
#2  Portugal:79 
#3  Angola:78 
#4  Brazil:78 
#5  Mexico:77 
#6  Belarus:77 
#7  Venezuela:75 
#8  Mozambique:74 
#9  Ukraine:73 
#10  Peru:73 
#11  Paraguay:73 
#12  Spain:70 
#13  El Salvador:69 
#14  Greece:67 
#15  Sierra Leone:67 
#16  Moldova:67 
#17  Chad:66 
#18  Bolivia:66 
#19  Argentina:66 
#20  Guatemala:65 
#21  Croatia:65 
#22  Kyrgyzstan:64 
#23  Lithuania:64 
#24  Azerbaijan:63 
#25  Costa Rica:63 
#26  Latvia:62 
#27  Central African Republic:62 
#28  Burundi:62 
#29  Russia:61 
#30  Madagascar:61 
#31  Slovakia:61 
#32  Nicaragua:61 
#33  Tanzania:61 
#34  Thailand:61 
#35  Philippines:60 
#36  Haiti:60 
#37  Jordan:60 
#38  Rwanda:60 
#39  Guinea:60 
#40  Slovenia:59 
#41  Colombia:59 
#42  Mauritania:59 
#43  Italy:59 
#44  Niger:59 
#45  Pakistan:58 
#46  Tunisia:57 
#47  Indonesia:57 
#48  Armenia:57 
#49  Togo:57 
#50  Serbia and Montenegro:56 
#51  Vietnam:56 
#52  Honduras:56 
#53  Ecuador:55 
#54  Poland:55 
#55  Finland:55 
#56  Kazakhstan:55 
#57  Georgia:55 
#58  Turkey:55 
#59  Uzbekistan:55 
#60  Cambodia:54 
#61  Netherlands:54 
#62  Hungary:54 
#63  Oman:54 
#64  Senegal:54 
#65  Romania:54 
#66  Mali:54 
#67  Bulgaria:53 
#68  Burkina Faso:53 
#69  Benin:52 
#70  Malawi:52 
#71  Ethiopia:51 
#72  Germany:51 
#73  India:51 
#74  Morocco:51 
#75  France:50 
#76  Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:50 
#77  Chile:50 
#78  Bangladesh:50 
#79  Mongolia:50 
#80  Bosnia and Herzegovina:49 
#81  Ireland:49 
#82  Dominican Republic:49 
#83  Belgium:48 
#84  China:47 
#85  Algeria:46 
#86  Zambia:46 
#87  Lebanon:46 
#88  Lesotho:45 
#89  United Arab Emirates:45 
#90  Syria:45 
#91  Nepal:45 
#92  Cameroon:44 
#93  Nigeria:43 
#94  Namibia:43 
#95  Uganda:42 
#96  Sweden:42 
#97  Sri Lanka:42 
#98  Puerto Rico:41 
#99  Kuwait:41 
#100  Albania:41 
#101  Norway:41 
#102  Uruguay:39 
#103  Israel:38 
#104  Japan:37 
#105  Australia:36 
#106  Switzerland:36 
#107  Czech Republic:36 
#108  South Africa:36 
#109  Saudi Arabia:36 
#110  Ghana:35 
#111  Botswana:35 
#112  Canada:34 
#113  Jamaica:34 
#114  Kenya:34 
#115  New Zealand:32 
#116  Austria:30 
#117  United Kingdom:28 
#118  Zimbabwe:27 
#119  Papua New Guinea:26 
#120  Malaysia:25 
#121  Denmark:25 
#122  United States:22 
#123  Singapore:20 
Weighted average: 52.6  


DEFINITION: This statistic is an average of "Regulation - Hiring", "Regulation - Firing", and "Regulation - Employment Conditions". Nations are listed with an Employment Laws Index between 1 and 100. The higher the index, the more the nation regulates Employment.

SOURCE: The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.

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