Cost of business start-up procedures (% of GNI per capita) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators

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Rank	Country	Value
Cost of business start-up procedures (% of GNI per capita) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators (2009)
1	Zimbabwe	499.50
2	Democratic Republic of the Congo	391
3	Guinea-Bissau	323
4	Central African Republic	244.90
5	Haiti	227.90
6	Gambia	215.10
7	Togo	205
8	Djibouti	195.10
9	Comoros	182.10
10	Chad	176.70
11	Benin	155.50
12	Burundi	151.60
13	Angola	151.10
14	Guinea	139.20
15	Cambodia	138.40
16	Micronesia	136.90
17	Ivory Coast	133.30
18	Cameroon	121.10
19	Sierra Leone	118.80
20	Niger	118.70
21	Suriname	112.80
22	Nicaragua	111.70
23	Malawi	108
24	Low income	107.50
25	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	106.18
26	Equatorial Guinea	100.40
27	Sub-Saharan Africa	99.69
28	Bolivia	99.20
29	Least developed countries: UN classification	96.51
30	Mali	89.20
31	Republic of the Congo	86.50
32	Uganda	84.40
33	Yemen	83
34	Sao Tome and Principe	81.70
35	Lebanon	78.20
36	Nigeria	76.70
37	Eritrea	76.50
38	Iraq	75.90
39	India	66.10
40	Senegal	63.70
41	Paraguay	56.70
42	West Bank and Gaza	55
43	Nepal	53.60
44	Low & middle income	53.51
45	Liberia	52.90
46	Solomon Islands	52.70
47	Middle East & North Africa	51.53
48	Belize	50.60
49	Burkina Faso	50.30
50	Jordan	49.50
51	Honduras	47.30
52	Guatemala	45.40
53	Kosovo	43.30
54	Lower middle income	42.68
55	Vanuatu	42
56	Latin America & Caribbean	41.19
57	Uruguay	40
58	El Salvador	38.70
59	Kiribati	38
60	Ecuador	37.70
61	Tanzania	36.80
62	Kenya	36.50
63	Bangladesh	36.20
64	Sudan	36
65	Mauritania	34.70
66	Swaziland	33.90
67	Guyana	32.80
68	Middle income	31.02
69	Afghanistan	30.20
70	East Asia & Pacific	30.12
71	Zambia	28.40
72	Philippines	28.20
73	Syria	27.80
74	Lesotho	27
75	South Asia	26.98
76	Ghana	26.40
77	Indonesia	26
78	Fiji	25.30
79	Grenada	24.60
80	Peru	24.50
81	Tajikistan	24.30
82	Venezuela	24
83	Dominica	22.60
84	St. Lucia	21.80
85	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	21
86	Papua New Guinea	20.50
87	Namibia	20.40
88	Costa Rica	20
89	Mozambique	19.30
90	Ethiopia	18.90
91	Italy	17.90
92	Poland	17.90
93	Gabon	17.80
94	Dominican Republic	17.30
95	Albania	17
96	Cape Verde	17
97	Marshall Islands	16.20
98	Egypt	16.10
99	Morocco	16.10
100	Upper middle income	16.03
101	Bosnia and Herzegovina	15.80
102	Spain	15
103	North Korea	14.70
104	South Korea	14.70
105	Turkey	14.20
106	Cyprus	13.30
107	Vietnam	13.30
108	Colombia	12.80
109	Laos	12.30
110	Algeria	12.10
111	Malaysia	11.90
112	St. Kitts and Nevis	11.90
113	Mexico	11.70
114	Uzbekistan	11.20
115	Argentina	11
116	Greece	10.90
117	Panama	10.30
118	Rwanda	10.10
119	Maldives	10
120	Samoa	9.90
121	Brunei Darussalam	9.80
122	Antigua and Barbuda	9.60
123	High income: nonOECD	9.42
124	Czech Republic	9.20
125	Europe & Central Asia	8.76
126	Bahamas	8.50
127	Croatia	8.40
128	Tonga	8.20
129	Hungary	8
130	Bhutan	8
131	Saudi Arabia	7.70
132	Japan	7.50
133	Seychelles	7.30
134	Madagascar	7.10
135	Serbia	7.10
136	Qatar	7.10
137	Moldova	7
138	Brazil	6.90
139	Chile	6.90
140	High income	6.70
141	Portugal	6.40
142	Thailand	6.30
143	United Arab Emirates	6.20
144	Euro area	6.01
145	South Africa	5.90
146	Sri Lanka	5.90
147	Pakistan	5.80
148	Ukraine	5.80
149	Tunisia	5.70
150	Netherlands	5.60
151	Belgium	5.30
152	Jamaica	5.30
153	Kyrgyzstan	5.20
154	Austria	5.10
155	China	4.90
156	Kazakhstan	4.80
157	Germany	4.70
158	High income: OECD	4.69
159	Palau	4.30
160	Israel	4.20
161	Timor-Leste	4.10
162	Mauritius	4.10
163	Iran	3.90
164	Georgia	3.70
165	Iceland	3
166	Mongolia	3
167	Romania	2.90
168	Azerbaijan	2.90
169	Russia	2.70
170	Armenia	2.60
171	Montenegro	2.60
172	Macedonia	2.50
173	Lithuania	2.40
174	Oman	2.20
175	Latvia	2.10
176	Botswana	2.10
177	Slovakia	2
178	Switzerland	2
179	Norway	1.90
180	Luxembourg	1.80
181	Hong Kong	1.80
182	Belarus	1.70
183	Bulgaria	1.70
184	Estonia	1.70
185	Kuwait	1
186	Finland	0.90
187	France	0.90
188	Australia	0.80
189	Puerto Rico	0.70
190	Trinidad and Tobago	0.70
191	Singapore	0.70
192	United States	0.70
193	United Kingdom	0.70
194	Sweden	0.60
195	Bahrain	0.50
196	New Zealand	0.40
197	Canada	0.40
198	Ireland	0.30
199	Slovenia	0
200	Denmark	0

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