Dealing with Construction Permits

This topic tracks the procedures, time and costs to build a warehouse—including obtaining necessary licenses and permits, completing required notifications and inspections and obtaining utility connections. The most recent round of data collection was completed in June 2012. Read the methodology.

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Economy ▲	Dealing with Construction Permits rank	The total number of procedures required to build a warehouse. A procedure is any interaction of the company’s employees or managers with external parties. More informationProcedures (number)	The total number of days required to build a warehouse. The measure captures the median duration that local experts indicate is necessary to complete a procedure in practice. More informationTime (days)	Cost is recorded as a percentage of the economy’s income per capita. Only official costs are recorded. More informationCost (% of income per capita)
East Asia & Pacific	..	17	148	86.9
Eastern Europe & Central Asia	..	19	226	486.7
Latin America & Caribbean	..	13	225	143.7
Middle East & North Africa	..	17	151	305.2
OECD high income	..	14	143	78.7
South Asia	..	16	201	871.2
Sub-Saharan Africa	..	15	196	751.6
Afghanistan	164	12	334	4,308.6
Albania	185	no practice	no practice	no practice
Algeria	138	19	281	54.6
Angola	124	12	348	153.6
Antigua and Barbuda	24	10	134	23.4
Argentina	171	24	365	74.3
Armenia	46	17	77	50.1
Australia	11	11	112	13.4
Austria	75	13	194	57.3
Azerbaijan	177	28	212	292.4
Bahamas, The	68	14	178	27.8
Bahrain	7	12	43	9.5
Bangladesh	83	11	201	126.5
Barbados	53	10	416	8.3
Belarus	30	12	130	24.8
Belgium	57	11	205	54.2
Belize	21	8	91	97.9
Benin	111	11	282	167.4
Bhutan	124	22	150	92.7
Bolivia	114	14	249	63.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina	163	17	180	1,102.1
Botswana	132	22	145	172.7
Brazil	131	17	469	36.0
Brunei Darussalam	43	22	95	4.0
Bulgaria	123	21	107	293.5
Burkina Faso	64	12	98	380.7
Burundi	141	21	99	1,911.9
Cambodia	149	21	652	36.9
Cameroon	95	11	147	1,008.7
Canada	69	13	163	64.1
Cape Verde	122	17	122	459.4
Central African Republic	147	18	203	194.0
Chad	127	13	154	5,106.8
Chile	84	15	155	67.3
China	181	28	270	375.3
Colombia	27	8	46	312.0
Comoros	60	13	143	74.5
Congo, Dem. Rep.	81	11	117	1,582.7
Congo, Rep.	149	14	201	1,151.4
Costa Rica	128	18	160	154.7
Côte d'Ivoire	169	17	475	155.1
Croatia	143	12	317	573.3
Cyprus	80	9	677	51.1
Czech Republic	74	33	120	10.5
Denmark	8	8	68	57.1
Djibouti	145	15	172	2,023.6
Dominica	22	9	165	7.6
Dominican Republic	108	14	216	72.7
Ecuador	104	16	128	208.5
Egypt, Arab Rep.	165	22	218	135.0
El Salvador	146	33	157	162.5
Equatorial Guinea	107	15	166	120.4
Eritrea	185	no practice	no practice	no practice
Estonia	35	13	148	16.1
Ethiopia	53	9	128	275.6
Fiji	82	17	148	43.8
Finland	34	16	66	43.3
France	52	9	184	68.0
Gabon	110	13	243	79.3
Gambia, The	90	14	143	124.7
Georgia	3	9	74	17.7
Germany	14	9	97	48.1
Ghana	162	16	218	481.2
Greece	31	15	89	27.5
Grenada	10	8	123	17.9
Guatemala	94	11	158	500.4
Guinea	152	29	197	94.8
Guinea-Bissau	117	12	163	785.2
Guyana	29	8	195	18.3
Haiti	136	9	1,129	692.0
Honduras	65	13	94	274.3
Hong Kong SAR, China	1	6	67	16.3
Hungary	55	26	102	5.7
Iceland	40	18	77	27.4
India	182	34	196	1,528.0
Indonesia	75	13	158	95.0
Iran, Islamic Rep.	166	16	320	262.3
Iraq	84	12	187	109.8
Ireland	106	12	156	626.1
Israel	139	19	212	86.4
Italy	103	11	234	184.2
Jamaica	50	8	145	212.4
Japan	72	14	193	28.5
Jordan	102	17	70	529.8
Kazakhstan	155	32	189	103.5
Kenya	45	9	125	211.9
Kiribati	120	16	170	164.8
Korea, Rep.	26	11	29	127.2
Kosovo	144	16	156	2,986.0
Kuwait	119	24	130	96.1
Kyrgyz Republic	67	12	142	140.6
Lao PDR	87	23	108	48.6
Latvia	113	21	203	18.6
Lebanon	172	19	219	301.8
Lesotho	140	11	330	950.4
Liberia	126	23	75	559.7
Lithuania	48	15	142	22.3
Luxembourg	33	12	157	19.2
Macedonia, FYR	65	10	117	517.8
Madagascar	148	16	172	1,116.9
Malawi	175	18	200	1,198.3
Malaysia	96	37	140	17.5
Maldives	19	8	174	8.2
Mali	99	11	179	418.6
Malta	167	18	237	243.9
Marshall Islands	4	8	87	22.3
Mauritania	115	16	82	2,796.6
Mauritius	62	16	143	28.5
Mexico	36	10	69	322.7
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	42	15	114	32.7
Moldova	168	26	291	69.3
Mongolia	121	19	208	39.2
Montenegro	176	16	267	1,169.6
Morocco	79	15	97	220.2
Mozambique	135	14	377	113.3
Namibia	56	12	139	110.9
Nepal	97	13	115	654.6
Netherlands	89	14	159	78.9
New Zealand	6	6	89	29.8
Nicaragua	154	16	218	362.0
Niger	160	12	326	1,612.8
Nigeria	88	15	85	417.7
Norway	23	10	123	30.2
Oman	59	13	174	37.6
Pakistan	105	11	222	216.0
Palau	44	22	93	7.6
Panama	73	17	101	83.7
Papua New Guinea	159	21	219	114.7
Paraguay	71	12	137	223.6
Peru	86	14	173	62.8
Philippines	100	29	84	103.0
Poland	161	29	301	49.4
Portugal	78	13	108	370.0
Puerto Rico (U.S.)	156	18	189	361.3
Qatar	18	16	62	1.1
Romania	129	15	287	79.1
Russian Federation	178	42	344	129.2
Rwanda	98	12	164	278.4
Samoa	70	21	87	57.7
São Tomé and Príncipe	91	13	118	386.7
Saudi Arabia	32	14	103	24.7
Senegal	133	13	210	529.1
Serbia	179	18	269	1,427.2
Seychelles	57	17	126	25.3
Sierra Leone	173	20	238	265.9
Singapore	2	11	26	16.7
Slovak Republic	46	11	286	7.3
Slovenia	61	11	197	65.3
Solomon Islands	77	15	92	248.5
South Africa	39	13	127	33.4
Spain	38	8	182	51.8
Sri Lanka	112	17	216	35.4
St. Kitts and Nevis	15	11	139	5.4
St. Lucia	11	7	125	23.0
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	5	8	112	9.8
Sudan	156	16	270	240.3
Suriname	92	11	461	60.4
Swaziland	41	13	95	94.9
Sweden	25	7	116	77.3
Switzerland	50	13	154	39.1
Syrian Arab Republic	134	23	104	483.9
Taiwan, China	9	11	94	16.3
Tajikistan	180	24	228	638.5
Tanzania	174	19	206	564.6
Thailand	16	8	157	9.2
Timor-Leste	116	19	238	13.9
Togo	137	12	309	431.5
Tonga	37	13	69	103.4
Trinidad and Tobago	101	17	297	5.3
Tunisia	93	17	88	256.0
Turkey	142	20	180	164.3
Uganda	118	15	125	853.1
Ukraine	183	20	375	1,262.6
United Arab Emirates	13	14	46	9.2
United Kingdom	20	9	99	62.4
United States	17	15	27	14.4
Uruguay	158	27	234	67.0
Uzbekistan	152	25	243	60.7
Vanuatu	48	12	54	431.2
Venezuela, RB	109	10	381	123.5
Vietnam	28	11	110	67.3
West Bank and Gaza	130	17	119	948.1
Yemen, Rep.	62	12	191	52.4
Zambia	151	14	196	1,679.1
Zimbabwe	170	12	614	4,423.4

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