Enforcing contracts, time (days) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators
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Time is recorded in calendar days, counted from the moment the plaintiff files the lawsuit in court until payment. This includes both the days when actions take place and the waiting periods between. The respondents make separate estimates of the average duration of different stages of dispute resolution: the completion of service of process (time to file the case), the issuance of judgment (time for the trial and obtaining the judgment) and the moment of payment (time for enforcement). For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
| Enforcing contracts, time (days) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009) |
Rank | Country | Value |
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| 1 |  Liberia | 1,280 |
| 2 | Djibouti | 1,225 |
| 3 | Sao Tome and Principe | 1,185 |
| 4 | Guinea-Bissau | 1,140 |
| 5 | Gabon | 1,070 |
| 6 | Angola | 1,011 |
| 7 | Egypt | 1,010 |
| 8 | Botswana | 987 |
| 9 | Swaziland | 972 |
| 10 | Madagascar | 871 |
| 11 | Burundi | 832 |
| 12 | Benin | 825 |
| 13 | Sudan | 810 |
| 14 | Cameroon | 800 |
| 15 | Senegal | 780 |
| 16 | Ivory Coast | 770 |
| 17 | Mauritius | 750 |
| 18 | Chad | 743 |
| 19 | Mozambique | 730 |
| 20 | Seychelles | 720 |
| 21 | Mali | 710 |
| 22 | North Africa | 705 |
| 23 | Lesotho | 695 |
| 24 | Ethiopia | 690 |
| 25 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria | 674.80 |
| 26 | Africa | 671.43 |
| 27 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 670.07 |
| 28 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 668.57 |
| 29 | Central African Republic | 660 |
| 30 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 645 |
| 31 | Algeria | 630 |
| 32 | Morocco | 615 |
| 33 | South Africa | 600 |
| 34 | Togo | 588 |
| 35 | Tunisia | 565 |
| 36 | Republic of the Congo | 560 |
| 37 | Equatorial Guinea | 553 |
| 38 | Niger | 545 |
| 39 | Uganda | 535 |
| 40 | Sierra Leone | 515 |
| 41 | Comoros | 506 |
| 42 | Ghana | 487 |
| 43 | Zambia | 471 |
| 44 | Kenya | 465 |
| 45 | Tanzania | 462 |
| 46 | Nigeria | 457 |
| 47 | Burkina Faso | 446 |
| 48 | Gambia | 434 |
| 49 | Malawi | 432 |
| 50 | Cape Verde | 425 |
| 51 | Zimbabwe | 410 |
| 52 | Eritrea | 405 |
| 53 | Mauritania | 370 |
| 54 | Rwanda | 310 |
| 55 | Guinea | 276 |
| 56 | Namibia | 270 |
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