Our proposal to end offshore secrecy, and move the world towards open registers, is here. But right now, the world looks like this:
The interactive chart above shows how open each country’s corporate registry is. All thanks to data from opencorporates.com, and you can click on a country to go to the individual assessment. Full screen version here.
Or we can focus on beneficial ownership registers, and look at whether each country has a register, and whether it’s “open” (available to everyone), or “closed” (available only to law enforcement) and whether they’re open or closed. You can click through to go to each country’s register’s website:
Full screen version here. Beneficial ownership register data from openownership.org.
All code by Tax Policy Associates Ltd, and available on our GitHub here. Many thanks to opencorporates.com and openownership.org.
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash
2 responses to “The state of play of open corporate data”
Interesting data. Is this said to be correct as at today’s date? I note, for example, that information on Guernsey directors is now freely available, but Guernsey has a score of 0/10 for this element.
I don’t know, that’s a great point… I wasn’t aware Guernsey director information was now available…