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International regulatory benchmark / OECD

Slovak Republic PMR Profile

Compare published OECD product-market regulation indicators within their stated reference periods. Regulatory scores describe encoded policy settings, not observed market outcomes.

Compare nine OECD-published regulatory indicators across 55 economies. Lower values indicate fewer encoded barriers on the OECD 0-6 scale; they do not measure concentration or enforcement performance.
Slovak Republic geographic locatorSlovak Republic is highlighted on Natural Earth world geography. The locator establishes geographic identity and does not encode a metric.
Selected economySVK / Slovak RepublicOECD / Natural Earth 1:110m / identity, not PMR
Overall PMR
1.331
OECD aggregate / 0-6
Lower-barrier rank
21 / 55
ascending current value
Reference date
2023
Jan 1, 2023
Comparable change
-0.124
Lower than recalculated 2018

International comparison workspace

Barriers to trade and investment55 visible economies / lower value means fewer encoded barriers

Current lower-barrier order

Trade and investment ranking

OECD medium-level indicator covering foreign direct investment, trade facilitation, and tariff barriers.
  1. 1NorwayNOR / OECD0.169
  2. 2United KingdomGBR / OECD0.178
  3. 3JapanJPN / OECD0.240
  4. 4NetherlandsNLD / OECD0.311
  5. 5SwedenSWE / OECD0.337
  6. 6PortugalPRT / OECD0.348
  7. 7FinlandFIN / OECD0.350
  8. 8LuxembourgLUX / OECD0.356
  9. 9DenmarkDNK / OECD0.375
  10. 10EstoniaEST / OECD0.378
  11. 11SpainESP / OECD0.379
  12. 12BelgiumBEL / OECD0.388
  13. 13IrelandIRL / OECD0.389
  14. 14FranceFRA / OECD0.406
  15. 15GermanyDEU / OECD0.409
  16. 16SwitzerlandCHE / OECD0.423
  17. 17LithuaniaLTU / OECD0.430
  18. 18ChileCHL / OECD0.436
  19. 19PeruPER / OECD-WBG0.450
  20. 20CroatiaHRV / OECD0.452
  21. 21LatviaLVA / OECD0.456
  22. 22SloveniaSVN / OECD0.470
  23. 23CzechiaCZE / OECD0.482
  24. 24PolandPOL / OECD0.486
  25. 25AustriaAUT / OECD0.492
  26. 26CanadaCAN / OECD0.505
  27. 27Slovak RepublicSVK / OECD0.512
  28. 28GreeceGRC / OECD0.532
  29. 29BulgariaBGR / OECD0.552
  30. 30ItalyITA / OECD0.586
  31. 31RomaniaROU / OECD0.587
  32. 32United StatesUSA / OECD0.590
  33. 33HungaryHUN / OECD0.590
  34. 34New ZealandNZL / OECD0.644
  35. 35IcelandISL / OECD0.645
  36. 36CyprusCYP / OECD0.702
  37. 37AustraliaAUS / OECD0.716
  38. 38Costa RicaCRI / OECD-WBG0.792
  39. 39MaltaMLT / OECD0.798
  40. 40ColombiaCOL / OECD-WBG0.923
  41. 41IsraelISR / OECD0.955
  42. 42KoreaKOR / OECD0.998
  43. 43MexicoMEX / OECD1.136
  44. 44MoldovaMDA / OECD-WBG1.185
  45. 45TürkiyeTUR / OECD1.257
  46. 46ArmeniaARM / OECD-WBG1.406
  47. 47MoroccoMAR / OECD-WBG1.466
  48. 48South AfricaZAF / OECD1.776
  49. 49Chinese TaipeiTWN / OECD1.838
  50. 50ChinaCHN / OECD-WBG1.857
  51. 51ThailandTHA / OECD-ADB2.204
  52. 52IndonesiaIDN / OECD2.313
  53. 53BrazilBRA / OECD2.545
  54. 54ArgentinaARG / OECD-WBG2.669
  55. 55KenyaKEN / OECD-WBG3.037

Interpretation boundary

A regulatory benchmark, not a competition verdict

The atlas preserves what this source can answer and keeps unlike evidence systems separate.

What the indicators encode

OECD questionnaire responses and coded laws and regulations, aggregated under the 2023 PMR methodology.

What they do not establish

Observed market concentration, market definition, legal liability, enforcement quality, consumer outcomes, or causal effects.

Why dates differ

Each economy retains the exact date of the laws and regulations encoded in the workbook; current rows span 2023-2025.

Why 2018 is comparable

Only OECD's recalculated 2018 sheet is used. The discontinued old-methodology sheet is excluded from the observatory.