This special edition of OECD Competition Trends presents unique insights into global competition trends based on a decade of data from 66 OECD and non-OECD jurisdictions. It analyses multi-year data on a large number of economic and legal indicators in the OECD CompStats database, with a focus on the main trends in the past ten years. In doing so, OECD Competition Trends supports informed policymaking and contributes to improving competition law and policy around the world.
The OECD Competition Committee, which includes senior representatives from the OECD member countries’ competition authorities, as well as additional Partners and International Organisations, is the premier source of policy analysis and advice to governments on how best to harness market forces in the interests of greater global economic efficiency and prosperity. For over 60 years, the OECD and its Competition Committee have taken a leading role in shaping the framework for exchanging best practices on competition law and policy and for fostering international co-operation among competition authorities. The resulting recommendations, best practices and policy roundtables serve both as models and inspiration for national initiatives and as tools for sharing global best practices on competition law and policy. Government and competition officials from developed and emerging economies are offered a unique platform from which to monitor developments in competition policy and enforcement and to discuss innovative solutions for increasing effectiveness.
The OECD CompStats database is the result of an initiative launched in 2018. The database compiles general statistics relating to competition authorities, including data on enforcement, resources and market studies. The data are collected annually and currently cover the period 2015‑24. The data are presented at an aggregate level, combining the data of individual jurisdictions to provide totals and averages for all, OECD and non-OECD jurisdictions. This report also presents, in Annex A, a snapshot of the evolution of the most relevant variables at a regional level, presenting aggregated data for four geographic regions (Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Middle East and Africa (MEA)). Annex B include graphs presenting totals of all relevant CompStats variables. The complete list of participating jurisdictions is included in Annex C, together with the lists of the competition authorities that provided data for each jurisdiction. An Excel file with a complete set of graphs covering all competition enforcement indicators, i.e. all indicators on all years (2015-2024), can be found on the OECD Competition Trends publication website.
As the role and scope of competition law and policy continue to evolve, the tools of competition authorities must constantly develop and incorporate lessons learned from others. This publication contributes to helping policy makers and competition enforcers to stay up to date with the different ways in which competition law and policy is applied throughout the world.
The publication was prepared by the OECD Competition Division, in particular a team composed of Aura García Pabón, project leader; Greg Jackson and Maddalena Grassi. The report benefited from comments and suggestions by Ori Schwartz, Antonio Capobianco and Federica Maiorano, also from the OECD Competition Division. The report was prepared for publication by Erica Agostinho. The authors thank the individual competition authorities in the participating jurisdictions who provided the information on which much of this publication is based.