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-Rwanda, Morocco, Mauritius, and seven other African countries emerged as the continent’s top performers in the 2025 World Bank business environment rankings, demonstrating notable progress in regulatory reforms, operational efficiency, and governance.

-The 2025 World Bank business environment rankings highlight Rwanda, Morocco, Mauritius, and others as top African performers.

-Rwanda is the sole African country in the first quintile, excelling in Operational Efficiency at a global level.

-Morocco and Mauritius also achieve impressive rankings due to their strong Regulatory Frameworks and operational competence.

-Public service delivery remains a challenge in many African nations, despite their progress in regulatory reforms.

B‑READY 2025 builds on the previous 2024 edition, which covered 50 economies, and draws on insights from nearly 5,000 local respondents, including legal experts and sector specialists. The framework tracks the life cycle of a firm and is designed to guide reforms that improve investment, innovation, and job creation.

The report, which evaluated 101 economies globally, ranks countries based on three key pillars: Regulatory Framework, Public Services, and Operational Efficiency. Each country’s performance is measured numerically for each pillar, and nations are grouped into quintiles, with the first quintile representing the top performers globally.

African nations in the top 10 largely rank in the third quintile, with Rwanda standing out as the continent’s only first-quintile performer, particularly excelling in Operational Efficiency. Other leaders, including Morocco and Mauritius, score highly on Regulatory Frameworks, reflecting strong policies and legal structures that support business activity.

The ranking system allows readers to understand not just which countries perform best, but also how scores in each pillar (Regulation, Services, and Efficiency) combine to determine overall business readiness, highlighting both strengths and gaps in Africa’s business environment.

How Africa Performed
Rwanda has maintained its winning streak, standing out as Africa’s only first-quintile performer, with 71.47 points in Operational Efficiency, placing it alongside high-income economies such as Canada and the United Kingdom.

In the 2024 World Bank B‑READY report, Rwanda also topped Africa, excelling across regulatory frameworks, public services, and operational efficiency, reinforcing its reputation as the continent’s most business-ready economy.

This reflects Rwanda’s success in creating a business-friendly environment, attracting investment, and driving economic growth. With high scores in all categories, Rwanda leads Africa as a model for economic reform and development.

Morocco, meanwhile, leads on Regulatory Framework with a score of 70.06, reflecting strong legal and policy structures supporting business creation and market competition. Mauritius also features prominently, ranking in the top three quintiles for operational efficiency and public service delivery.

Other top African performers include Ghana, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Togo, Mali, and Botswana, all of which rank in the third quintile globally for regulatory quality or operational efficiency.

While these countries demonstrate solid progress in regulatory reforms, the report notes that public service delivery remains a key constraint across the continent. Many African economies continue to lag behind global peers, particularly in operational efficiency and public services, which are closely linked to GDP per capita.

The B‑READY findings show that targeted reforms can drive meaningful improvements, even for lower-income economies. Countries that combine strong regulations with operational effectiveness like Rwanda and Morocco, are better positioned to attract investment, create jobs, and foster sustainable growth.

For the continent, the report highlights a clear message: regulatory progress is tangible, but success ultimately depends on translating policies into effective services.

How Africa Performed
Rwanda has maintained its winning streak, standing out as Africa’s only first-quintile performer, with 71.47 points in Operational Efficiency, placing it alongside high-income economies such as Canada and the United Kingdom.

In the 2024 World Bank B‑READY report, Rwanda also topped Africa, excelling across regulatory frameworks, public services, and operational efficiency, reinforcing its reputation as the continent’s most business-ready economy.

This reflects Rwanda’s success in creating a business-friendly environment, attracting investment, and driving economic growth. With high scores in all categories, Rwanda leads Africa as a model for economic reform and development.

The B‑READY findings showed that countries that combine strong regulations with operational effectiveness like Rwanda and Morocco, are better positioned to attract investment, create jobs, and foster sustainable growth.

Racoon:
See Paul Kigame doing great in Africa. So upon all them forex and estacode the Tinubu govt have been wasting chasing investors, Nigeria is still nowhere near the African power houses of DFI or investors destination?

Agbadorian corn, ewa, garri and cassava eater, you see that the failure Lagos first class economic wonder dog accountant is not an economic role model thereby making Nigerian a mockery in African.

OLOKOESHIN:
Be sincere Sinedu, if Nigeria is ranked among those countries above. What will be your comment and give me examples of where you’ve commented positively about Nigeria growth in the past. I believe your father has more than 15 children and you expect Nigeria to care for them all.

Racoon:
Giant of Africa always missing in action for anything good under balablu bulava; GDPPP, stable electricity, currency strength, economy, cost of living, and even sporting nation. We dey bottom.

But talk about any negative indices of life; fraud, corruption, economic wastage, terrorism, paid zombified supporters of bigotry and tribalism @ the expense of bad govt, the country is always number one. So terrible!

Racoon:
Giant of Africa always missing in action for anything good under balablu bulava; GDPPP, stable electricity, currency strength, economy, cost of living, and even sporting nation. We dey bottom.

But talk about any negative indices of life; fraud, corruption, economic wastage, terrorism, paid zombified supporters of bigotry and tribalism @ the expense of bad govt, the country is always number one. So terrible!

benardtotti:
Your Pdp ruled nigeria for 16 years and nigeria never made it to the list but you want to come here and blame Apc as if nigeria was once on the list and apc was the one that took us off , respect your old age bro and start thinking logically.

Franchise21:
You can never find Nigeria top in such list

YouAreNobody:
This is a very daft response. Why does Nigeria never appear in good indices? And why are Yorubas always supporting this useless govt?

SeeWahala:
Where is my country? Nigeria is on the list jor wey this op? didn't you scroll down and see Nigeria at number 48 on the list? You went and posted only the top 10 when we are among top 50

demarketers of 9ja😏

OLOKOESHIN:
Be sincere Sinedu, if Nigeria is ranked among those countries above. What will be your comment and give me examples of where you’ve commented positively about Nigeria growth in the past. I believe your father has more than 15 children and you expect Nigeria to care for them all.

Racoon:
Giant of Africa always missing in action for anything good under balablu bulava; GDPPP, stable electricity, currency strength, economy, cost of living, and even sporting nation. We dey bottom.

But talk about any negative indices of life; fraud, corruption, economic wastage, terrorism, paid zombified supporters of bigotry and tribalism @ the expense of bad govt, the country is always number one. So terrible!