Starting a business, time (days) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African 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. 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, time (days) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009)
1	Guinea-Bissau	233
2	Democratic Republic of the Congo	155
3	Sao Tome and Principe	144
4	Equatorial Guinea	136
5	Zimbabwe	96
6	Eritrea	84
7	Botswana	78
8	Chad	75
9	Angola	68
10	Namibia	66
11	Swaziland	61
12	Gabon	58
13	Togo	53
14	Cape Verde	52
15	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria	48.49
16	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa	48.11
17	Sub-Saharan Africa	47.55
18	Africa	44.88
19	Guinea	41
20	Lesotho	40
21	Ivory Coast	40
22	Sudan	39
23	Malawi	39
24	Seychelles	38
25	Djibouti	37
26	Cameroon	37
27	Republic of the Congo	37
28	Ghana	34
29	Burundi	32
30	Benin	31
31	Liberia	31
32	Nigeria	31
33	Kenya	30
34	Tanzania	29
35	Gambia	27
36	Mozambique	26
37	Mali	25
38	Uganda	25
39	Algeria	24
40	Comoros	23
41	Central African Republic	22
42	South Africa	22
43	Mauritania	19
44	Niger	19
45	Zambia	18
46	Sierra Leone	17
47	Burkina Faso	16
48	Ethiopia	16
49	Rwanda	14
50	North Africa	13.50
51	Morocco	12
52	Tunisia	11
53	Senegal	8
54	Madagascar	7
55	Egypt	7
56	Mauritius	6

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