Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Economy > 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 | 216 | 2009 | ||
2 | Sao Tome and Principe | 144 | 2009 | ||
3 | Equatorial Guinea | 136 | 2009 | ||
4 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 127 | 2009 | ||
5 | Zimbabwe | 97 | 2009 | ||
6 | Eritrea | 84 | 2009 | ||
=7 | Chad | 75 | 2009 | ||
=7 | Togo | 75 | 2009 | ||
9 | Namibia | 66 | 2009 | ||
10 | Botswana | 61 | 2009 | ||
11 | Swaziland | 60 | 2009 | ||
12 | Gabon | 58 | 2009 | ||
13 | Guinea | 41 | 2009 | ||
=14 | Cote d'Ivoire | 40 | 2009 | ||
=14 | Lesotho | 40 | 2009 | ||
=16 | Seychelles | 39 | 2009 | ||
=16 | Malawi | 39 | 2009 | ||
18 | Djibouti | 37 | 2009 | ||
19 | Sudan | 36 | 2009 | ||
20 | Cameroon | 35 | 2009 | ||
21 | Kenya | 34 | 2009 | ||
22 | Burundi | 32 | 2009 | ||
=23 | Benin | 31 | 2009 | ||
=23 | Nigeria | 31 | 2009 | ||
25 | Tanzania | 29 | 2009 | ||
26 | The Gambia | 27 | 2009 | ||
27 | Mozambique | 26 | 2009 | ||
28 | Uganda | 25 | 2009 | ||
=29 | Comoros | 24 | 2009 | ||
=29 | Cape Verde | 24 | 2009 | ||
=31 | South Africa | 22 | 2009 | ||
=31 | Central African Republic | 22 | 2009 | ||
33 | Liberia | 20 | 2009 | ||
34 | Mauritania | 19 | 2009 | ||
35 | Zambia | 18 | 2009 | ||
36 | Niger | 17 | 2009 | ||
37 | Burkina Faso | 14 | 2009 | ||
=38 | Ghana | 12 | 2009 | ||
=38 | Sierra Leone | 12 | 2009 | ||
40 | Ethiopia | 9 | 2009 | ||
=41 | Mali | 8 | 2009 | ||
=41 | Senegal | 8 | 2009 | ||
43 | Madagascar | 7 | 2009 | ||
44 | Mauritius | 6 | 2009 | ||
45 | Rwanda | 3 | 2009 |