This chapter describes the coverage of the report and presents a snapshot of the competition resources and enforcement activity of the CompStats jurisdictions.
OECD Competition Trends 2024
OECD Competition Trends
1. OECD CompStats at a glance
Abstract
Regional coverage of the OECD CompStats database
In this report, the OECD CompStats database includes 77 jurisdictions. The following figure presents the number of participating jurisdictions by region. 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.
Figure 1.1. Regional coverage of the OECD CompStats Database 2023
Source: OECD CompStats database.
Available data in the CompStats database
The OECD CompStats database temporal coverage increased from seven to eight years due to the additional year of data for 2022. The OECD CompStats website contains the underlying data for each of the CompStats variables in this report.
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, 2022
Note: All measures based on the number of jurisdictions that provided all eight years of data (64 jurisdictions for nominal competition budget, 71 jurisdictions for competition staff, 68 jurisdictions for cartel decisions, 68 jurisdictions for abuse of dominance decisions, and 66 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. The growth on nominal budget for non-OECD jurisdictions was mostly driven by two of them. 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.