Starting a business, procedures (number) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators
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Start-up procedures are those required to start a business, including interactions to obtain necessary permits and licenses and to complete all inscriptions, verifications, and notifications to start operations. Data are for businesses with specific characteristics of ownership, size, and type of production. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
| Starting a business, procedures (number) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009) |
Rank | Country | Value |
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| 1 |  Equatorial Guinea | 20 |
| 2 | Chad | 19 |
| 3 | Uganda | 18 |
| 4 | Guinea-Bissau | 16 |
| 5 | Algeria | 14 |
| 6 | Swaziland | 13 |
| 7 | Cameroon | 13 |
| 8 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 13 |
| 9 | Eritrea | 13 |
| 10 | Guinea | 13 |
| 11 | Togo | 13 |
| 12 | Kenya | 12 |
| 13 | Cape Verde | 12 |
| 14 | Tanzania | 12 |
| 15 | Burundi | 11 |
| 16 | Central African Republic | 11 |
| 17 | Niger | 11 |
| 18 | Comoros | 11 |
| 19 | Djibouti | 11 |
| 20 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria | 10.22 |
| 21 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 10.17 |
| 22 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 10.09 |
| 23 | Africa | 10 |
| 24 | Sao Tome and Principe | 10 |
| 25 | Tunisia | 10 |
| 26 | Zimbabwe | 10 |
| 27 | Botswana | 10 |
| 28 | Republic of the Congo | 10 |
| 29 | Ivory Coast | 10 |
| 30 | Mozambique | 10 |
| 31 | Malawi | 10 |
| 32 | Namibia | 10 |
| 33 | Mali | 10 |
| 34 | Sudan | 10 |
| 35 | North Africa | 9 |
| 36 | Seychelles | 9 |
| 37 | Mauritania | 9 |
| 38 | Ghana | 9 |
| 39 | Gabon | 9 |
| 40 | Angola | 8 |
| 41 | Rwanda | 8 |
| 42 | Gambia | 8 |
| 43 | Nigeria | 8 |
| 44 | Benin | 7 |
| 45 | Lesotho | 7 |
| 46 | Ethiopia | 7 |
| 47 | Sierra Leone | 6 |
| 48 | Morocco | 6 |
| 49 | Liberia | 6 |
| 50 | South Africa | 6 |
| 51 | Egypt | 6 |
| 52 | Zambia | 6 |
| 53 | Burkina Faso | 5 |
| 54 | Madagascar | 5 |
| 55 | Mauritius | 5 |
| 56 | Senegal | 4 |
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