Starting a business, minimum capital (% of income per capita) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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The paid-in minimum capital requirement reflects the amount that the entrepreneur needs to deposit in a bank or with a notary before registration and up to 3 months following in­corporation and is recorded as a percentage of the country’s income per capita. The amount is typically specified in the commercial code or the company law. Many countries have a minimum capital requirement but allow businesses to pay only a part of it before registration, with the rest to be paid after the first year of operation. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Starting a business, minimum capital (% of income per capita) - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009)

Rank

Country

Value

1Guinea-Bissau1,015
2Niger702.10
3Ethiopia693.60
4Togo559.90
5Djibouti514
6Central African Republic513.90
7Guinea476.90
8Burkina Faso458.80
9Mauritania422.60
10Eritrea396.70
11Mali390.40
12Chad365.10
13Benin347
14Madagascar289.80
15Comoros280.80
16Senegal236.20
17Ivory Coast215.90
18Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria188.57
19Cameroon188
20Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa184.47
21Sub-Saharan Africa180.55
22Africa167.40
23Republic of the Congo131.20
24Mozambique122.50
25Cape Verde47.50
26Angola39.10
27Algeria36.60
28Gabon30.20
29Ghana16.60
30Equatorial Guinea15.40
31Lesotho14.50
32Morocco13.10
33North Africa12.93
34Egypt2
35Zambia1.50
36Swaziland0.60
37Nigeria0
38Rwanda0
39Sudan0
40Liberia0
41Sierra Leone0
42Kenya0
43Sao Tome and Principe0
44Burundi0
45Botswana0
46Seychelles0
47Gambia0
48Mauritius0
49Tunisia0
50Tanzania0
51Uganda0
52Malawi0
53South Africa0
54Democratic Republic of the Congo0
55Namibia0
56Zimbabwe0
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