Starting a business, cost (% of income per capita) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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Cost to register a business is normalized by presenting it as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).

Rank	Country	Value
Starting a business, cost (% of income per capita) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009)
1	Guinea-Bissau	460.70
2	Democratic Republic of the Congo	435.40
3	Zimbabwe	432.70
4	Gambia	254.90
5	Togo	251.30
6	Central African Republic	237.60
7	Burundi	215
8	Djibouti	200.20
9	Angola	196.80
10	Benin	196
11	Comoros	188.60
12	Chad	175
13	Niger	170.10
14	Sierra Leone	145.80
15	Cameroon	137.10
16	Guinea	135.70
17	Ivory Coast	135.10
18	Malawi	125.90
19	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria	121.74
20	Mali	121.50
21	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa	121.05
22	Sub-Saharan Africa	118.60
23	Africa	110.42
24	Rwanda	108.90
25	Republic of the Congo	106.40
26	Eritrea	102.20
27	Equatorial Guinea	101.70
28	Uganda	100.70
29	Nigeria	90.10
30	Sao Tome and Principe	88.90
31	Senegal	72.70
32	Burkina Faso	62.30
33	Liberia	61.60
34	Sudan	50.80
35	Tanzania	41.50
36	Kenya	39.70
37	Lesotho	37.80
38	Cape Verde	35.70
39	Swaziland	35.10
40	Mauritania	33.90
41	Ghana	32.70
42	Ethiopia	29.80
43	Zambia	28.60
44	Mozambique	22.90
45	Namibia	22.10
46	Gabon	20.30
47	Morocco	20
48	Egypt	18.30
49	North Africa	14.25
50	Madagascar	11
51	Algeria	10.80
52	Seychelles	8.30
53	Tunisia	7.90
54	South Africa	6
55	Mauritius	5
56	Botswana	2.30

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Starting a business, cost (% of income per capita) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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