Business & Economics

Corporate, national, and economic performance rankings — company league tables, competitiveness indexes, and economic development rankings.

Ease of Doing Business Index — How the World Bank Ranked Economies How the Ease of Doing Business index worked: case-study indicators across 10 regulatory topics, distance-to-frontier scores, the 2021 data scandal, and discontinuation.
Fortune 500 — How the Ranking Methodology Works How the Fortune 500 ranks companies: total revenue as the sole criterion, eligibility rules, the Global 500 variant, and criticisms of revenue-only ranking.
Global Competitiveness Index — How the WEF Ranks Economies How the Global Competitiveness Index ranked economies: 12 pillars, executive surveys plus hard data, development-stage weighting, and why the index paused.