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Kyrgyz Republic

The World Bank rates Kyrgyz Republic's labor-regulation quality at 69.9/100 in the 2025 B-READY release.

B-READY 2025
69.9 B-READY labor quality (0–100) High regulatory quality
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Kyrgyz Republic scores 69.9/100 on the World Bank B-READY labor-regulation quality index.

#29/101 · B-READY 69.9. World Bank B-READY 2025.

Employment Protection Composite

B 72/100

One composite verdict from 1 of 3 independent sources, each percentile-benchmarked against every rated country. A missing source never lowers the score -- its weight redistributes to the sources this country actually has.

ILO EPLex N/A
N/A
Statutory dismissal-protection composite
World Bank B-READY B
69.9
Labor-market regulatory quality (0-100 scale)
OECD EPL N/A
N/A
Employment protection legislation strictness

Benchmarked against p10-p90 of every country rated by that source. See our methodology for the exact benchmark table and weights.

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What the Data Shows for Kyrgyz Republic

Asia-Pacific. Covered by 1/3 tracked datasets. B-READY 2025 labor score: 69.9/100, moderate.

Dismissal process: ~5.2 weeks, middling. No 3rd-party approval required for individual dismissal.

Formal labor dispute resolution is notably slow, averaging 8.3 months from filing to outcome. A moderate share of firms, 7.7% in the World Bank's survey, report experiencing a labor dispute. Employer social contributions add a comparatively light cost layer, 3.5% of salary. 6 peer comparisons below.

ILO EPLex
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No data available
B-READY 2025
69.9
out of 100 · Rank #29
OECD EPL
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No data available
B-READY 2025

Labor Regulation Quality

How Kyrgyz Republic's 69.9/100 score breaks down (each pillar weighted equally)

Regulation Quality
79.3
out of 100
Public Services
67.1
out of 100
Efficiency
63.2
out of 100
Notice Required
Yes
Severance Required
Yes
Weeks to Dismiss
5.2
Weeks Severance
8.3
Firms in Disputes
7.7%
Months to Resolve
8.3
Social Contributions
3.5%
3rd Party for Dismissal
Not required

Source: World Bank Business Ready 2025 Pillar scores are 0-100 (higher = better regulation quality)

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Two peer sets for Kyrgyz Republic on metrics that vary across the full country corpus, not regional containment. The nearest EPLex block below stays on the ILO composite; these neighborhoods use B-READY, OECD, or statutory-duration axes.

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Data sourced from official OECD, ILO, and World Bank employment-protection datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainEmploy

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Primary sources: ILO EPLex, World Bank B-READY, OECD EPL.

PlainEmploy is rendered directly from the OECD Employment Protection Legislation indicators, the ILO EPLex database, and the World Bank B-READY labor pillar, no number is typed in by an editor. This country's composite scores and comparisons are computed directly from the underlying OECD/EPLex/B-READY tables, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-30.