Chile

Ease of Doing Business in

Chile

This page summarizes Doing Business 2013 data for Chile. The first table lists the overall "Ease of Doing Business" rank (out of 185 economies) and the rankings by each topic. It also lists the economy's distance to frontier (DTF)** measure. The rest of the tables summarize the key indicators for each topic and benchmark against regional and high-income economy (OECD) averages.

Economy Overview

Region Latin America & Caribbean
Income Category Upper middle income
Population 17,269,525
GNI Per Capita (US$) 12,280
Doing Business 2013 Rank Doing Business 2012 Rank Change in Rank
37 33 down -4

Doing Business 2013 DTF** (% points) Doing Business 2012 DTF** (% points) Improvement in DTF** (% points)
69.7 70.0 down -0.3
Topic Rankings DB 2013 Rank DB 2012 Rank Change in Rank
Starting a Business 32 27 up -5
Dealing with Construction Permits 84 84 No change
Getting Electricity 40 41 up 1
Registering Property 55 54 up -1
Getting Credit 53 52 up -1
Protecting Investors 32 29 up -3
Paying Taxes 36 35 up -1
Trading Across Borders 48 44 up -4
Enforcing Contracts 70 68 up -2
Resolving Insolvency 98 89 up -9

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Getting Electricity

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The challenges required for a business to obtain a permanent electricity connection for a newly constructed warehouse are shown below. Included are the number of steps, time, and cost.

DB 2013 Rank 40 DB 2012 Rank 41 Change in Rank up1
DB 2013 DTF** (% points) 77.8 DB 2012 DTF** (% points) 77.8 Improvement in DTF** (% points) 0.0
Indicator Chile Latin America & Caribbean OECD

The number of procedures to obtain a permanent electricity connection. A procedure is defined as any interaction of the company employees or the company’s main electrician with external parties.

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Procedures (number)
6 5 5

The number of days to obtain a permanent electricity connection. The measure captures the median duration that the electricity utility and experts indicate is necessary in practice, rather than required by law, to complete a procedure.

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Time (days)
31 66 98

The cost is recorded as a percentage of the economy’s income per capita. Costs are recorded exclusive of value added tax.

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Cost (% of income per capita)
67.6 559.0 93.0
No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 The customer submits a service application in person with Chilectra and awaits that Chilectra issues an estimate for the project 15 calendar days CLP 401,292.5
* 2 Receive external inspection by Chilectra 3 calendar days no charge
* 3 The customer has to sign the supply contract in front of a notary 1 calendar day CLP 2,500.0
4 The customer pays the connection costs and awaits that Chilectra executes the connection works 14 calendar days CLP 4,039,153.7
* 5 The customer receives approval of the internal installation works by the "Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustibles (SEC)" 11 calendar days no charge
* 6 Receive final connection and meter installation 14 calendar days no charge
* Takes place simultaneously with another procedure.

** The distance to frontier (DTF) measure shows the distance of each economy to the "frontier," which represents the highest performance observed on each of the indicators across all economies included in Doing Business since each indicator was included in Doing Business. An economy’s distance to frontier is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance and 100 the frontier. Read more...

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