Business Friendly Cities 2024

The definitive guide to where business thrives in emerging Europe.

Explore the only dual-index ranking that reveals both perception and reality across 168 cities—so you can invest, partner, and expand with confidence.

  • 5th EDITION
  • 101 GLOBAL FDI EXPERTS SURVEYED
  • NEW GEOSPATIAL DATA INCLUDED
  • 168 CITIES in 23 countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
$89.00

A compass for city competitiveness
The Business-Friendly Cities Report 2024 ranks 168 cities across eight strategic categories—from talent to infrastructure—based on expert perception and geospatial data.

For the first time, it combines survey insights from 101 global FDI and site selection experts with hard data scraped from OpenStreetMap, offering a balanced, evidence-backed view of city