Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Government > Time required to start a business > Days
DEFINITION:
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.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Guinea-Bissau | 233 days | 2006 | ||
2 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 155 days | 2006 | ||
3 | Sao Tome and Principe | 144 days | 2006 | ||
4 | Equatorial Guinea | 136 days | 2006 | ||
5 | Angola | 124 days | 2006 | ||
6 | Mozambique | 113 days | 2006 | ||
7 | Botswana | 108 days | 2006 | ||
8 | Zimbabwe | 96 days | 2006 | ||
9 | Namibia | 95 days | 2006 | ||
10 | Mauritania | 82 days | 2006 | ||
11 | Ghana | 81 days | 2006 | ||
12 | Eritrea | 76 days | 2006 | ||
13 | Chad | 75 days | 2006 | ||
14 | Lesotho | 73 days | 2006 | ||
15 | Swaziland | 61 days | 2006 | ||
16 | Gabon | 60 days | 2006 | ||
17 | Senegal | 58 days | 2006 | ||
18 | Kenya | 54 days | 2006 | ||
19 | Togo | 53 days | 2006 | ||
20 | Cape Verde | 52 days | 2006 | ||
21 | Guinea | 49 days | 2006 | ||
22 | Mauritius | 46 days | 2006 | ||
23 | Cote d'Ivoire | 45 days | 2006 | ||
=24 | Nigeria | 43 days | 2006 | ||
=24 | Burundi | 43 days | 2006 | ||
26 | Mali | 42 days | 2006 | ||
27 | Sudan | 39 days | 2006 | ||
28 | Seychelles | 38 days | 2006 | ||
=29 | Djibouti | 37 days | 2006 | ||
=29 | Malawi | 37 days | 2006 | ||
=29 | Cameroon | 37 days | 2006 | ||
=32 | Zambia | 35 days | 2006 | ||
=32 | South Africa | 35 days | 2006 | ||
34 | Burkina Faso | 34 days | 2006 | ||
35 | Benin | 31 days | 2006 | ||
=36 | Uganda | 30 days | 2006 | ||
=36 | Tanzania | 30 days | 2006 | ||
38 | The Gambia | 27 days | 2006 | ||
39 | Sierra Leone | 26 days | 2006 | ||
40 | Niger | 24 days | 2006 | ||
41 | Comoros | 23 days | 2006 | ||
42 | Madagascar | 21 days | 2006 | ||
=43 | Rwanda | 16 days | 2006 | ||
=43 | Ethiopia | 16 days | 2006 | ||
45 | Central African Republic | 14 days | 2006 |