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OECD regulation / merger-control evidence desk

Global Competition Policy Systems

How do regulatory frameworks and reported merger-control activity line up across economies?

Compare OECD regulatory indicators with reported authority activity. Different dates, definitions, and institutional responsibilities remain separate; these measures are not a single competition score.

Economy universe
65
union of both OECD releases
Exact joins
47
same economy code and name
Visible gaps
18
one-sided evidence records
Evidence cells
5,245
numeric cells across both systems
Exact identityCode and published name must agree
Separate clocksPMR reference date / annual activity year
Visible gapsOne-sided packets remain researchable

No performance, effectiveness, welfare, or enforcement score is calculated.

Exact OECD economy-code bridge

Read regulation and enforcement activity in separate coordinate systems

47 exact joined economies, 8 PMR-only economies, and 10 enforcement-only economies.
Enforcement time machineFrame 10 / 10
2024

56 published economy valuesPMR remains on economy-specific snapshot dates.

Linked annual reading

2024 evidence brief

Decisions / reported counts
02 / Active economy
USA

United States

Joined economy

Reports 1,934 decisions in 2024, rank 1 / 56, +222 from 2023.

Activity packet
2024
PMR snapshot
2024-01-01
Open combined dossier

Separate PMR clock. 55 economy snapshots span 0.806 to 2.923 for overall pmr, with 2023-01-01 through 2025-01-01. These values stay fixed while the enforcement year changes.

Metric-specific peer context

Who sits nearest on each published measure?

Two independent cohorts / no blended similarity score

Peer method. Each lane orders all other numeric economy rows by absolute difference from the active value, then resolves equal distances by lower value and economy name. PMR and enforcement peers are never merged into a synthetic cohort or score.

Joined47exact code and name
PMR only8regulatory packet only
Enforcement only10activity packet only
Regional authorities2kept outside economy ranks

Separate-system geography

Two evidence layers, one exact economy universe

Natural Earth 1:110m / 176 geometries / no blended score

Enforcement layer clock

Reported activity updates by exact year; PMR source snapshots stay fixed.
2024Frame 10 / 10

01 / Regulatory framework

Overall Product Market Regulation

55 economies with current valuesCurrent economy-specific PMR reference dates, grouped into five descriptive quantiles.
Lower encoded barriers
  1. up to 1.13
  2. up to 1.35
  3. up to 1.57
  4. up to 1.96
  5. up to 2.92
Higher encoded barriersNo published value
Active economyUSAUnited States

1.579 / rank 34 / 55

Highest publishedKENKenya

2.923 / rank 55 / 55

Lowest publishedSWESweden

0.806 / rank 1 / 55

No published value10of 65 economy records

55 published values

Overall Product Market Regulation world mapEconomies are colored by quantiles of the selected current PMR measure. Lower values indicate fewer encoded regulatory barriers, not better outcomes.Afghanistan: outside the 65-economy bridgeAlbania: no published overall product market regulation valueAlgeria: outside the 65-economy bridgeAngola: outside the 65-economy bridgeArgentina: 2.298 overall product market regulationArmenia: 1.958 overall product market regulationAustralia: 1.347 overall product market regulationAustria: 1.510 overall product market regulationAzerbaijan: outside the 65-economy bridgeBahamas: outside the 65-economy bridgeBangladesh: outside the 65-economy bridgeBelarus: outside the 65-economy bridgeBelgium: 1.478 overall product market regulationBelize: outside the 65-economy bridgeBenin: outside the 65-economy bridgeBhutan: outside the 65-economy bridgeBolivia: outside the 65-economy bridgeBosnia and Herzegovina: outside the 65-economy bridgeBotswana: outside the 65-economy bridgeBrazil: 2.317 overall product market regulationBrunei Darussalam: outside the 65-economy bridgeBulgaria: 1.310 overall product market regulationBurkina Faso: outside the 65-economy bridgeBurundi: outside the 65-economy bridgeCambodia: outside the 65-economy bridgeCameroon: outside the 65-economy bridgeCanada: 1.500 overall product market regulationCentral African Republic: outside the 65-economy bridgeChad: outside the 65-economy bridgeChile: 1.347 overall product market regulationChina: 2.588 overall product market regulationColombia: 1.831 overall product market regulationCosta Rica: 2.046 overall product market regulationCôte d'Ivoire: outside the 65-economy bridgeCroatia: 1.356 overall product market regulationCuba: outside the 65-economy bridgeCyprus: 1.649 overall product market regulationCzechia: 1.211 overall product market regulationDem. Rep. Korea: outside the 65-economy bridgeDemocratic Republic of the Congo: outside the 65-economy bridgeDenmark: 1.049 overall product market regulationDjibouti: outside the 65-economy bridgeDominican Republic: outside the 65-economy bridgeEcuador: no published overall product market regulation valueEgypt: outside the 65-economy bridgeEl Salvador: no published overall product market regulation valueEquatorial Guinea: outside the 65-economy bridgeEritrea: outside the 65-economy bridgeEstonia: 0.919 overall product market regulationEthiopia: outside the 65-economy bridgeFalkland Islands / Malvinas: outside the 65-economy bridgeFiji: outside the 65-economy bridgeFinland: 1.012 overall product market regulationFrance: 1.230 overall product market regulationFrench Southern and Antarctic Lands: outside the 65-economy bridgeGabon: outside the 65-economy bridgeGeorgia: outside the 65-economy bridgeGermany: 1.208 overall product market regulationGhana: outside the 65-economy bridgeGreece: 1.360 overall product market regulationGreenland: outside the 65-economy bridgeGuatemala: outside the 65-economy bridgeGuinea: outside the 65-economy bridgeGuinea-Bissau: outside the 65-economy bridgeGuyana: outside the 65-economy bridgeHaiti: outside the 65-economy bridgeHonduras: outside the 65-economy bridgeHungary: 1.593 overall product market regulationIceland: 1.530 overall product market regulationIndia: outside the 65-economy bridgeIndonesia: 2.201 overall product market regulationIran: outside the 65-economy bridgeIraq: outside the 65-economy bridgeIreland: 0.903 overall product market regulationIsrael: 1.565 overall product market regulationItaly: 1.231 overall product market regulationJamaica: outside the 65-economy bridgeJapan: 1.604 overall product market regulationJordan: outside the 65-economy bridgeKazakhstan: outside the 65-economy bridgeKenya: 2.923 overall product market regulationKingdom of eSwatini: outside the 65-economy bridgeKosovo: outside the 65-economy bridgeKuwait: outside the 65-economy bridgeKyrgyzstan: outside the 65-economy bridgeLao PDR: outside the 65-economy bridgeLatvia: 1.181 overall product market regulationLebanon: outside the 65-economy bridgeLesotho: outside the 65-economy bridgeLiberia: outside the 65-economy bridgeLibya: outside the 65-economy bridgeLithuania: 0.855 overall product market regulationLuxembourg: 1.835 overall product market regulationMadagascar: outside the 65-economy bridgeMalawi: outside the 65-economy bridgeMalaysia: outside the 65-economy bridgeMali: outside the 65-economy bridgeMauritania: outside the 65-economy bridgeMexico: 1.791 overall product market regulationMoldova: 1.674 overall product market regulationMongolia: outside the 65-economy bridgeMontenegro: outside the 65-economy bridgeMorocco: 2.890 overall product market regulationMozambique: outside the 65-economy bridgeMyanmar: outside the 65-economy bridgeNamibia: outside the 65-economy bridgeNepal: outside the 65-economy bridgeNetherlands: 0.910 overall product market regulationNew Caledonia: outside the 65-economy bridgeNew Zealand: 1.362 overall product market regulationNicaragua: outside the 65-economy bridgeNiger: outside the 65-economy bridgeNigeria: outside the 65-economy bridgeNorth Macedonia: outside the 65-economy bridgeNorthern Cyprus: outside the 65-economy bridgeNorway: 1.023 overall product market regulationOman: outside the 65-economy bridgePakistan: outside the 65-economy bridgePalestine: outside the 65-economy bridgePanama: no published overall product market regulation valuePapua New Guinea: outside the 65-economy bridgeParaguay: no published overall product market regulation valuePeru: 1.325 overall product market regulationPhilippines: outside the 65-economy bridgePoland: 1.066 overall product market regulationPortugal: 1.534 overall product market regulationPuerto Rico: outside the 65-economy bridgeQatar: outside the 65-economy bridgeKorea: 1.354 overall product market regulationRepublic of the Congo: outside the 65-economy bridgeRomania: 1.727 overall product market regulationRussian Federation: outside the 65-economy bridgeRwanda: outside the 65-economy bridgeSaudi Arabia: no published overall product market regulation valueSenegal: outside the 65-economy bridgeSerbia: outside the 65-economy bridgeSierra Leone: outside the 65-economy bridgeSlovak Republic: 1.331 overall product market regulationSlovenia: 1.133 overall product market regulationSolomon Islands: outside the 65-economy bridgeSomalia: outside the 65-economy bridgeSomaliland: outside the 65-economy bridgeSouth Africa: 2.827 overall product market regulationSouth Sudan: outside the 65-economy bridgeSpain: 1.163 overall product market regulationSri Lanka: outside the 65-economy bridgeSudan: outside the 65-economy bridgeSuriname: outside the 65-economy bridgeSweden: 0.806 overall product market regulationSwitzerland: 1.328 overall product market regulationSyria: outside the 65-economy bridgeChinese Taipei: 2.200 overall product market regulationTajikistan: outside the 65-economy bridgeTanzania: outside the 65-economy bridgeThailand: 2.383 overall product market regulationThe Gambia: outside the 65-economy bridgeTimor-Leste: outside the 65-economy bridgeTogo: outside the 65-economy bridgeTrinidad and Tobago: outside the 65-economy bridgeTunisia: no published overall product market regulation valueTürkiye: 2.524 overall product market regulationTurkmenistan: outside the 65-economy bridgeUganda: outside the 65-economy bridgeUkraine: outside the 65-economy bridgeUnited Arab Emirates: outside the 65-economy bridgeUnited Kingdom: 0.897 overall product market regulationUnited States: 1.579 overall product market regulationUruguay: outside the 65-economy bridgeUzbekistan: outside the 65-economy bridgeVanuatu: outside the 65-economy bridgeVenezuela: outside the 65-economy bridgeVietnam: outside the 65-economy bridgeWestern Sahara: outside the 65-economy bridgeYemen: outside the 65-economy bridgeZambia: outside the 65-economy bridgeZimbabwe: outside the 65-economy bridgeBarbados: no published overall product market regulation valueMalta: 1.725 overall product market regulationMauritius: no published overall product market regulation valueSingapore: no published overall product market regulation value
OECD Product Market RegulationQuantiles describe this release, not policy thresholds.

02 / Reported activity / 2024

Merger decisions

56 economies with numeric valuesAnnual Competition Trends counts, grouped into five descriptive quantiles.
Lower reported activity
  1. up to 23
  2. up to 40
  3. up to 85
  4. up to 187
  5. up to 1.9K
Higher reported activityNo published value
Active economyUSAUnited States

1,934 / rank 1 / 56

Highest publishedUSAUnited States

1,934 / rank 1 / 56

Lowest publishedBRBBarbados

0 / rank 56 / 56

No published value9of 65 economy records

56 published values

Merger decisions world mapEconomies are colored by quantiles of the selected reported merger-control activity count for 2024. Higher counts do not indicate higher enforcement quality.Afghanistan: outside the 65-economy bridgeAlbania: 53 merger decisionsAlgeria: outside the 65-economy bridgeAngola: outside the 65-economy bridgeArgentina: 92 merger decisionsArmenia: no published merger decisions valueAustralia: 298 merger decisionsAustria: 328 merger decisionsAzerbaijan: outside the 65-economy bridgeBahamas: outside the 65-economy bridgeBangladesh: outside the 65-economy bridgeBelarus: outside the 65-economy bridgeBelgium: 38 merger decisionsBelize: outside the 65-economy bridgeBenin: outside the 65-economy bridgeBhutan: outside the 65-economy bridgeBolivia: outside the 65-economy bridgeBosnia and Herzegovina: outside the 65-economy bridgeBotswana: outside the 65-economy bridgeBrazil: 686 merger decisionsBrunei Darussalam: outside the 65-economy bridgeBulgaria: 26 merger decisionsBurkina Faso: outside the 65-economy bridgeBurundi: outside the 65-economy bridgeCambodia: outside the 65-economy bridgeCameroon: outside the 65-economy bridgeCanada: 242 merger decisionsCentral African Republic: outside the 65-economy bridgeChad: outside the 65-economy bridgeChile: 30 merger decisionsChina: no published merger decisions valueColombia: 33 merger decisionsCosta Rica: 47 merger decisionsCôte d'Ivoire: outside the 65-economy bridgeCroatia: 10 merger decisionsCuba: outside the 65-economy bridgeCyprus: no published merger decisions valueCzechia: 63 merger decisionsDem. Rep. Korea: outside the 65-economy bridgeDemocratic Republic of the Congo: outside the 65-economy bridgeDenmark: 62 merger decisionsDjibouti: outside the 65-economy bridgeDominican Republic: outside the 65-economy bridgeEcuador: 18 merger decisionsEgypt: outside the 65-economy bridgeEl Salvador: no published merger decisions valueEquatorial Guinea: outside the 65-economy bridgeEritrea: outside the 65-economy bridgeEstonia: 47 merger decisionsEthiopia: outside the 65-economy bridgeFalkland Islands / Malvinas: outside the 65-economy bridgeFiji: outside the 65-economy bridgeFinland: 58 merger decisionsFrance: 295 merger decisionsFrench Southern and Antarctic Lands: outside the 65-economy bridgeGabon: outside the 65-economy bridgeGeorgia: outside the 65-economy bridgeGermany: 864 merger decisionsGhana: outside the 65-economy bridgeGreece: 23 merger decisionsGreenland: outside the 65-economy bridgeGuatemala: outside the 65-economy bridgeGuinea: outside the 65-economy bridgeGuinea-Bissau: outside the 65-economy bridgeGuyana: outside the 65-economy bridgeHaiti: outside the 65-economy bridgeHonduras: outside the 65-economy bridgeHungary: 67 merger decisionsIceland: 27 merger decisionsIndia: outside the 65-economy bridgeIndonesia: 98 merger decisionsIran: outside the 65-economy bridgeIraq: outside the 65-economy bridgeIreland: 85 merger decisionsIsrael: 169 merger decisionsItaly: 94 merger decisionsJamaica: outside the 65-economy bridgeJapan: 374 merger decisionsJordan: outside the 65-economy bridgeKazakhstan: outside the 65-economy bridgeKenya: 40 merger decisionsKingdom of eSwatini: outside the 65-economy bridgeKosovo: outside the 65-economy bridgeKuwait: outside the 65-economy bridgeKyrgyzstan: outside the 65-economy bridgeLao PDR: outside the 65-economy bridgeLatvia: 24 merger decisionsLebanon: outside the 65-economy bridgeLesotho: outside the 65-economy bridgeLiberia: outside the 65-economy bridgeLibya: outside the 65-economy bridgeLithuania: 37 merger decisionsLuxembourg: no published merger decisions valueMadagascar: outside the 65-economy bridgeMalawi: outside the 65-economy bridgeMalaysia: outside the 65-economy bridgeMali: outside the 65-economy bridgeMauritania: outside the 65-economy bridgeMexico: 152 merger decisionsMoldova: no published merger decisions valueMongolia: outside the 65-economy bridgeMontenegro: outside the 65-economy bridgeMorocco: no published merger decisions valueMozambique: outside the 65-economy bridgeMyanmar: outside the 65-economy bridgeNamibia: outside the 65-economy bridgeNepal: outside the 65-economy bridgeNetherlands: 133 merger decisionsNew Caledonia: outside the 65-economy bridgeNew Zealand: 8 merger decisionsNicaragua: outside the 65-economy bridgeNiger: outside the 65-economy bridgeNigeria: outside the 65-economy bridgeNorth Macedonia: outside the 65-economy bridgeNorthern Cyprus: outside the 65-economy bridgeNorway: 148 merger decisionsOman: outside the 65-economy bridgePakistan: outside the 65-economy bridgePalestine: outside the 65-economy bridgePanama: 5 merger decisionsPapua New Guinea: outside the 65-economy bridgeParaguay: 15 merger decisionsPeru: 20 merger decisionsPhilippines: outside the 65-economy bridgePoland: 318 merger decisionsPortugal: 85 merger decisionsPuerto Rico: outside the 65-economy bridgeQatar: outside the 65-economy bridgeKorea: 801 merger decisionsRepublic of the Congo: outside the 65-economy bridgeRomania: 105 merger decisionsRussian Federation: outside the 65-economy bridgeRwanda: outside the 65-economy bridgeSaudi Arabia: 187 merger decisionsSenegal: outside the 65-economy bridgeSerbia: outside the 65-economy bridgeSierra Leone: outside the 65-economy bridgeSlovak Republic: 33 merger decisionsSlovenia: 27 merger decisionsSolomon Islands: outside the 65-economy bridgeSomalia: outside the 65-economy bridgeSomaliland: outside the 65-economy bridgeSouth Africa: no published merger decisions valueSouth Sudan: outside the 65-economy bridgeSpain: 86 merger decisionsSri Lanka: outside the 65-economy bridgeSudan: outside the 65-economy bridgeSuriname: outside the 65-economy bridgeSweden: 92 merger decisionsSwitzerland: 44 merger decisionsSyria: outside the 65-economy bridgeChinese Taipei: 58 merger decisionsTajikistan: outside the 65-economy bridgeTanzania: outside the 65-economy bridgeThailand: no published merger decisions valueThe Gambia: outside the 65-economy bridgeTimor-Leste: outside the 65-economy bridgeTogo: outside the 65-economy bridgeTrinidad and Tobago: outside the 65-economy bridgeTunisia: 21 merger decisionsTürkiye: 282 merger decisionsTurkmenistan: outside the 65-economy bridgeUganda: outside the 65-economy bridgeUkraine: outside the 65-economy bridgeUnited Arab Emirates: outside the 65-economy bridgeUnited Kingdom: 28 merger decisionsUnited States: 1,934 merger decisionsUruguay: outside the 65-economy bridgeUzbekistan: outside the 65-economy bridgeVanuatu: outside the 65-economy bridgeVenezuela: outside the 65-economy bridgeVietnam: outside the 65-economy bridgeWestern Sahara: outside the 65-economy bridgeYemen: outside the 65-economy bridgeZambia: outside the 65-economy bridgeZimbabwe: outside the 65-economy bridgeBarbados: 0 merger decisionsMalta: 9 merger decisionsMauritius: 3 merger decisionsSingapore: 4 merger decisions
OECD Competition Trends / 2024Quantiles describe this release, not policy thresholds.
USA

Active economy / Joined evidence

United StatesColored in both maps only when both source packets publish the selected measures.
Overall PMR
1.579
rank 34 / 55
Decisions / 2024
1,934
rank 1 / 56
Open dossier

Read the maps side by side. PMR color and activity color remain separate descriptive encodings; neither is a concentration, effectiveness, welfare, or causation measure.

Preserved cross-release gaps

One-sided economy packets stay in the research universe

18 of 65 economies

Regional authority boundary

Regional authorities remain outside economy ranks

2 CompStats jurisdictions
COMESA
COMESA70 numeric rows / Middle East and Africa
Open dossier

Source custody

Two OECD releases, no blended vintage

Every measure keeps its publisher, period, and source dossier.
01
Regulatory frameworkProduct Market Regulation Indicators, 2023 methodology

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / current reference years 2023, 2024, 2025 / recalculated 2018 / reviewed 2026-07-24

Source dossier
02
Authority activityA Decade of OECD Competition Trends, Data and Insights

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / 2015-2024 / reviewed 2026-07-24

Source dossier

Cross-system interpretation boundary

Two OECD statistical systems, one exact-code navigation layer.

Product Market Regulation indicators encode regulatory frameworks on a 0-6 scale at economy-specific dates. Competition Trends records reported authority activity by year. The bridge preserves both releases in full, computes ranks only inside each source system, and exposes missing packets instead of filling them.

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