Time required to start a business (days) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators

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Time required to start a business is the number of calendar days needed to complete the procedures to legally operate a business. If a procedure can be speeded up at additional cost, the fastest procedure, independent of cost, is chosen.

Rank	Country	Value
Time required to start a business (days) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators (2009)
1	Suriname	694
2	Guinea-Bissau	213
3	Haiti	195
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	149
5	Sao Tome and Principe	144
6	Venezuela	141
7	Equatorial Guinea	136
8	Brazil	120
9	Brunei Darussalam	116
10	Laos	100
11	Zimbabwe	96
12	Cambodia	85
13	Eritrea	84
14	Timor-Leste	83
15	Iraq	77
16	Chad	75
17	Togo	75
18	Angola	68
19	Latin America & Caribbean	66.86
20	Namibia	66
21	Uruguay	65
22	Ecuador	64
23	Swaziland	61
24	Botswana	61
25	Indonesia	60
26	Bosnia and Herzegovina	60
27	Costa Rica	60
28	Gabon	58
29	Solomon Islands	57
30	Papua New Guinea	56
31	Kosovo	52
32	Philippines	52
33	Bolivia	50
34	Vietnam	50
35	West Bank and Gaza	49
36	Least developed countries: UN classification	48.54
37	Spain	47
38	Upper middle income	47
39	Bhutan	46
40	Fiji	46
41	St. Kitts and Nevis	45
42	Low income	44.30
43	Belize	44
44	Bangladesh	44
45	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	43.79
46	Sub-Saharan Africa	43.62
47	Trinidad and Tobago	43
48	East Asia & Pacific	41.85
49	Low & middle income	41.18
50	Guinea	41
51	Peru	41
52	Lesotho	40
53	Ivory Coast	40
54	Middle income	39.89
55	Vanuatu	39
56	Nicaragua	39
57	Malawi	39
58	Sri Lanka	38
59	Seychelles	38
60	Republic of the Congo	37
61	Djibouti	37
62	China	37
63	Sudan	36
64	Kuwait	35
65	Paraguay	35
66	Lower middle income	34.35
67	Cameroon	34
68	Israel	34
69	Kenya	34
70	Guyana	34
71	Ghana	33
72	Thailand	32
73	Poland	32
74	Burundi	32
75	Nepal	31
76	Bahamas	31
77	Benin	31
78	Nigeria	31
79	India	30
80	Russia	30
81	Guatemala	29
82	Tanzania	29
83	South Asia	28.13
84	Palau	28
85	Austria	28
86	High income: nonOECD	27.25
87	Chile	27
88	Ukraine	27
89	Argentina	27
90	Gambia	27
91	Mozambique	26
92	Lithuania	26
93	Tajikistan	25
94	Tonga	25
95	Uganda	25
96	Luxembourg	24
97	Comoros	24
98	Algeria	24
99	Cape Verde	24
100	Middle East & North Africa	23.08
101	Japan	23
102	South Africa	22
103	Central African Republic	22
104	Croatia	22
105	Kiribati	21
106	Antigua and Barbuda	21
107	Liberia	20
108	Kazakhstan	20
109	Grenada	20
110	Switzerland	20
111	Colombia	20
112	Pakistan	20
113	High income	19.09
114	Greece	19
115	Dominican Republic	19
116	Mauritania	19
117	Europe & Central Asia	18.57
118	Zambia	18
119	Bulgaria	18
120	Germany	18
121	El Salvador	17
122	Syria	17
123	Marshall Islands	17
124	Niger	17
125	Latvia	16
126	Micronesia	16
127	Slovakia	16
128	Euro area	15.33
129	United Arab Emirates	15
130	Armenia	15
131	Uzbekistan	15
132	Mali	15
133	Czech Republic	15
134	Sweden	15
135	Honduras	14
136	North Korea	14
137	Finland	14
138	Burkina Faso	14
139	Dominica	14
140	St. Lucia	14
141	South Korea	14
142	High income: OECD	13.04
143	Ireland	13
144	Montenegro	13
145	United Kingdom	13
146	Mongolia	13
147	Serbia	13
148	Jordan	13
149	Mexico	13
150	Morocco	12
151	Panama	12
152	Sierra Leone	12
153	Oman	12
154	Yemen	12
155	Kyrgyzstan	11
156	Tunisia	11
157	Malaysia	11
158	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	11
159	Moldova	10
160	Azerbaijan	10
161	Romania	10
162	Italy	10
163	Netherlands	10
164	Iran	9
165	Bahrain	9
166	Lebanon	9
167	Ethiopia	9
168	Samoa	9
169	Maldives	9
170	Cyprus	8
171	Jamaica	8
172	Senegal	8
173	France	7
174	Estonia	7
175	Afghanistan	7
176	Egypt	7
177	Puerto Rico	7
178	Norway	7
179	Madagascar	7
180	Turkey	6
181	Mauritius	6
182	Qatar	6
183	United States	6
184	Slovenia	6
185	Portugal	6
186	Denmark	6
187	Belarus	6
188	Hong Kong	6
189	Saudi Arabia	5
190	Albania	5
191	Iceland	5
192	Canada	5
193	Belgium	4
194	Macedonia	4
195	Hungary	4
196	Rwanda	3
197	Georgia	3
198	Singapore	3
199	Australia	2
200	New Zealand	1

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Time required to start a business (days) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators

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