provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
This topic identifies the bureaucratic and legal hurdles an entrepreneur must overcome to incorporate and register a new firm. It examines the procedures, time, and cost involved in launching a commercial or industrial firm with up to 50 employees and start-up capital of 10 times the economy's per-capita gross national income (GNI).
The table below shows the main indicators. They include:
all procedures required to register a firm,
average time spent during each procedure,
official cost of each procedure, and
the minimum capital required as a percentage of income per capita.
To see the starting a business details for a specific economy, use the dropdown box on the right or click on the links below. Click on column headers to sort data.
