Cost of business start-up procedures, female (% of GNI per capita) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Cost to register a business is normalized by presenting it as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita.

Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Somalia 198.20 2019
2 Chad 169.30 2019
3 Central African Republic 127.80 2019
4 Mozambique 106.90 2019
5 Guinea-Bissau 88.80 2019
6 Zimbabwe 76.60 2019
7 Congo 62.20 2019
8 Equatorial Guinea 59.10 2019
9 Mali 55.10 2019
10 Comoros 54.20 2019
11 The Gambia 49.50 2019
12 Ethiopia 45.40 2019
13 Burkina Faso 42.80 2019
14 Tanzania 40.60 2019
15 Uganda 40.50 2019
16 Djibouti 39.70 2019
17 Zambia 34.00 2019
18 Guinea 33.80 2019
19 Malawi 32.60 2019
20 Madagascar 30.20 2019
21 Nigeria 26.10 2019
22 Cameroon 24.90 2019
23 Libya 24.60 2019
24 Senegal 22.60 2019
25 Kenya 22.40 2019
26 Eritrea 21.30 2019
27 Egypt 20.30 2019
28 Sudan 17.80 2019
29 Dem. Rep. Congo 16.30 2019
30 Mauritania 15.80 2019
31 Gabon 13.30 2019
32 Cabo Verde 13.00 2019
33 Seychelles 12.50 2019
34 São Tomé and Principe 12.40 2019
35 Ghana 12.30 2019
35 Burundi 12.30 2019
37 Algeria 11.30 2019
38 Angola 11.10 2019
39 Eswatini 10.70 2019
40 Namibia 8.90 2019
41 Togo 8.10 2019
42 Niger 7.90 2019
43 Sierra Leone 7.60 2019
44 Liberia 6.30 2019
45 Lesotho 6.10 2019
46 Morocco 3.60 2019
47 Benin 3.50 2019
48 Tunisia 2.90 2019
49 Côte d'Ivoire 2.70 2019
50 Mauritius 0.80 2019
51 Botswana 0.60 2019
52 South Africa 0.20 2019
53 Rwanda 0.00 2019

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Development Relevance: The economic health of a country is measured not only in macroeconomic terms but also by other factors that shape daily economic activity such as laws, regulations, and institutional arrangements. The data measure business regulation, gauge regulatory outcomes, and measure the extent of legal protection of property, the flexibility of employment regulation, and the tax burden on businesses. The fundamental premise of this data is that economic activity requires good rules and regulations that are efficient, accessible to all who need to use them, and simple to implement. Thus sometimes there is more emphasis on more regulation, such as stricter disclosure requirements in related-party transactions, and other times emphasis is on for simplified regulations, such as a one-stop shop for completing business startup formalities. Entrepreneurs may not be aware of all required procedures or may avoid legally required procedures altogether. But where regulation is particularly onerous, levels of informality are higher, which comes at a cost: firms in the informal sector usually grow more slowly, have less access to credit, and employ fewer workers - and those workers remain outside the protections of labor law. The indicator can help policymakers understand the business environment in a country and - along with information from other sources such as the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys - provide insights into potential areas of reform.

Limitations and Exceptions: The Doing Business methodology has limitations that should be considered when interpreting the data. First, the data collected refer to businesses in the economy's largest city and may not represent regulations in other locations of the economy. To address this limitation, subnational indicators are being collected for selected economies. These subnational studies point to significant differences in the speed of reform and the ease of doing business across cities in the same economy. Second, the data often focus on a specific business form - generally a limited liability company of a specified size - and may not represent regulation for other types of businesses such as sole proprietorships. Third, transactions described in a standardized business case refer to a specific set of issues and may not represent the full set of issues a business encounters. Fourth, the time measures involve an element of judgment by the expert respondents. When sources indicate different estimates, the Doing Business time indicators represent the median values of several responses given under the assumptions of the standardized case. Fifth, the methodology assumes that a business has full information on what is required and does not waste time when completing procedures.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Data are collected by the World Bank with a standardized survey that uses a simple business case to ensure comparability across economies and over time - with assumptions about the legal form of the business, its size, its location, and nature of its operation. Surveys are administered through more than 9,000 local experts, including lawyers, business consultants, accountants, freight forwarders, government officials, and other professionals who routinely administer or advise on legal and regulatory requirements. Entrepreneurs around the world face a range of challenges. One of them is inefficient regulation. The indicator measures the procedures, time, cost and paid-in minimum capital required for a small or medium-size limited liability company to start up and formally operate. The Doing Business project of the World Bank encompasses two types of data: data from readings of laws and regulations and data on time and motion indicators that measure efficiency in achieving a regulatory goal. Within the time and motion indicators cost estimates are recorded from official fee schedules where applicable. The data from surveys are subjected to numerous tests for robustness, which lead to revision or expansion of the information collected.

Aggregation method: Unweighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Data are presented for the survey year instead of publication year.