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DEFINITION
Time dealing with officials is the percentage of management time in a given week spent on requirements imposed by government regulations (taxes, customs, labor regulations, licensing and registration).
Government Statistics > Management time dealing with officials > % of management time (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
Date
# 1
Madagascar :
20.79 %
2005
# 2
Mexico :
20.25 %
2006
# 3
Lesotho :
19.79 %
2003
# 4
China :
18.52 %
2003
# 5
Colombia :
14.2 %
2006
# 6
Ecuador :
13.44 %
2003
# 7
Nicaragua :
12.98 %
2003
# 8
Zambia :
12.96 %
2002
# 9
Bolivia :
12.84 %
2006
# 10
Cameroon :
12.8 %
2006
# 11
Guatemala :
12.44 %
2003
# 12
Argentina :
12.33 %
2006
# 13
Cape Verde :
12.17 %
2006
# 14
Lebanon :
11.97 %
2006
# 15
Kenya :
11.67 %
2003
# 16
Niger :
11.45 %
2005
# 17
Albania :
10.41 %
2005
# 18
Paraguay :
10.37 %
2006
# 19
Syria :
10.31 %
2003
# 20
Honduras :
10.24 %
2003
# 21
Panama :
10.22 %
2006
# 22
Costa Rica :
9.63 %
2005
# 23
Mauritius :
9.56 %
2005
# 24
Burkina Faso :
9.53 %
2006
# 25
South Africa :
9.19 %
2003
# 26
Pakistan :
8.69 %
2002
# 27
Cambodia :
8.61 %
2003
# 28
Peru :
8.23 %
2006
# 29
Macedonia, Republic of :
8.19 %
2005
# 30
Ukraine :
8.12 %
2005
# 31
Morocco :
7.55 %
2004
# 32
Mali :
7.53 %
2003
# 33
Gambia, The :
7.31 %
2006
# 34
El Salvador :
7.21 %
2003
# 35
Brazil :
7.19 %
2003
# 36
Angola :
7.14 %
2006
= 37
Oman :
6.88 %
2003
= 37
Philippines :
6.88 %
2003
# 39
Uruguay :
6.8 %
2006
# 40
India :
6.67 %
2006
# 41
Benin :
6.46 %
2004
# 42
Russia :
6.34 %
2005
# 43
Jamaica :
6.32 %
2005
# 44
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
6.31 %
2006
# 45
Kyrgyzstan :
6.11 %
2005
# 46
Rwanda :
5.92 %
2006
# 47
Mauritania :
5.84 %
2006
= 48
Malawi :
5.83 %
2005
= 48
Vietnam :
5.83 %
2005
# 50
Chile :
5.79 %
2004
# 51
Burundi :
5.7 %
2006
# 52
Mongolia :
5.67 %
2004
# 53
Hungary :
5.27 %
2005
# 54
Uganda :
5.21 %
2006
# 55
Azerbaijan :
5.15 %
2005
# 56
Lithuania :
5.1 %
2005
# 57
Botswana :
4.96 %
2006
# 58
Germany :
4.5 %
2005
# 59
Swaziland :
4.4 %
2006
# 60
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
4.28 %
2005
# 61
Tanzania :
4.01 %
2006
# 62
Indonesia :
3.98 %
2003
# 63
Poland :
3.83 %
2005
# 64
Eritrea :
3.77 %
2002
# 65
Slovenia :
3.74 %
2005
# 66
Bangladesh :
3.71 %
2002
# 67
Greece :
3.68 %
2005
# 68
Belarus :
3.6 %
2005
# 69
Sri Lanka :
3.54 %
2004
# 70
Moldova :
3.45 %
2005
# 71
Tajikistan :
3.29 %
2005
# 72
Portugal :
3.25 %
2005
= 73
Korea, North :
3.21 %
2005
= 73
Senegal :
3.21 %
2003
# 75
Kazakhstan :
3.18 %
2005
# 76
Georgia :
3.05 %
2005
# 77
Slovakia :
3.04 %
2005
# 78
Latvia :
2.93 %
2005
# 79
Guinea-Bissau :
2.87 %
2006
# 80
Namibia :
2.86 %
2006
# 81
Bulgaria :
2.79 %
2005
# 82
Croatia :
2.69 %
2005
# 83
Guinea :
2.65 %
2006
# 84
Uzbekistan :
2.53 %
2005
# 85
Ireland :
2.33 %
2005
# 86
Guyana :
2.3 %
2004
# 87
Estonia :
2.29 %
2005
# 88
Armenia :
2.28 %
2005
# 89
Czech Republic :
2.08 %
2005
= 90
Egypt :
2.05 %
2004
= 90
Ethiopia :
2.05 %
2002
# 92
Romania :
1.46 %
2005
# 93
Thailand :
1.29 %
2004
# 94
Spain :
0.83 %
2005
Weighted average:
6.8 %
DEFINITION: Time dealing with officials is the percentage of management time in a given week spent on requirements imposed by government regulations (taxes, customs, labor regulations, licensing and registration).
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