OECD Competition Trends 2023

1. OECD CompStats at a glance

Abstract

This chapter describes the changes in coverage of the report, as well as the creation of a new geographic region, compared to previous editions. It presents a snapshot of the competition resources and enforcement activity of the CompStats jurisdictions.

Regional coverage of the OECD CompStats database

The coverage of the OECD CompStats database increased relative to the previous edition due to the inclusion of new jurisdictions and one additional year of data. In this report, the OECD CompStats database includes eight new jurisdictions, covering a total number of 79 jurisdictions.1 All new jurisdictions are non-OECD jurisdictions and are located in three different regions: Asia-Pacific (one);2 the Americas (three);3 and the Middle East and Africa (MEA) (four).4 In fact, the addition in 2021 of four jurisdictions in MEA allowed the creation of this separate geographic region for the analysis, replacing the category “Other” in previous editions. Some jurisdictions that were previously included in “Other” are now assigned to the other existing regions.

Figure 1.1. Regional coverage of the OECD CompStats Database 2021

Source: OECD CompStats database.

The complete list of jurisdictions in each region is included in the Annex, together with the lists of the competition authorities that provided data in each jurisdiction.

Available data in the CompStats database

The OECD CompStats database temporal coverage increased from six to seven years due to the additional year of data for 2021. The OECD CompStats website contains the underlying data for the figures in this report, aggregate and anonymously, as well as all of the figures from the previous version of the report (OECD Competition Trends 2022) updated for the new jurisdictions and additional year of data.

Snapshot of competition resources and enforcement activity

The general overview below provides a snapshot of competition resources and enforcement activity.

Figure 1.2. Competition resources and enforcement activity, 2021

Note: All measures based on the number of jurisdictions that provided all seven years of data (66 jurisdictions for nominal competition budget, 70 jurisdictions for competition staff, 68 jurisdictions for cartel decisions, 67 jurisdictions for abuse of dominance decisions, and 65 jurisdictions for merger decisions). Nominal competition budget figures are in 2015 euros (non-euro currencies are converted using 2015 official exchange rates on 31 December 2015) to eliminate distortions due to currency fluctuations. Competition staff are staff working only on competition (excluding administrative staff or staff involved in other functions of the authority, such as consumer protection, public procurement, sector regulation).

Source: OECD CompStats database.

Notes

← 1.  The Russian Federation was excluded from the OECD CompStats database and the People’s Republic of China did not provide information for 2021.

← 2.  Uzbekistan.

← 3.  Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay.

← 4.  Botswana, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Kenya, and Mauritius.