Creating

DOING BUSINESS INDICATORS 95
Starting a Business
JANUARY 2005
Dealing with Licenses
JANUARY 2005
Minimum
Cost capital Cost
Procedures Time (% of income (% of income Procedures Time (% of income
Economy (number) (days) per capita) per capita) (number) (days) per capita)
Afghanistan 1 7 52.8 0.0 . . . . . .
Albania 11 41 31.1 39.9 22 344 227.4
Algeria 14 26 25.3 55.1 25 244 70.5
Angola 14 146 642.8 485.4 15 326 1674.7
Argentina 15 32 13.4 6.6 23 288 47.9
Armenia 10 25 6.1 4.0 20 176 64.9
Australia 2 2 1.9 0.0 16 121 12.3
Austria 9 29 5.7 61.5 14 195 81.6
Azerbaijan 14 115 12.5 0.0 28 212 1326.2
Bangladesh 8 35 81.4 0.0 13 185 291.0
Belarus 16 79 22.9 42.8 18 354 22.7
Belgium 4 34 11.1 13.5 15 184 64.1
Benin 8 32 190.8 323.1 22 335 287.9
Bhutan 11 62 10.7 0.0 26 249 62.5
Bolivia 15 50 154.8 4.1 13 187 268.2
Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 54 40.9 57.4 17 476 8735.4
Botswana 11 108 10.9 0.0 42 160 298.8
Brazil 17 152 10.1 0.0 19 460 184.4
Bulgaria 11 32 9.6 104.2 24 212 325.1
Burkina Faso 12 45 149.9 483.8 46 241 5002.3
Burundi 11 43 200.7 0.0 18 302 10740.5
Cambodia 10 86 276.1 80.7 28 247 606.7
Cameroon 12 37 172.8 216.5 15 444 1094.2
Canada 2 3 0.9 0.0 15 87 123.0
Central African Republic 10 14 211.6 568.1 21 237 308.3
Chad 19 75 360.8 619.1 16 199 1703.1
Chile 9 27 10.3 0.0 12 191 125.2
China 13 48 13.6 946.7 30 363 126.0
Colombia 12 43 25.3 0.0 12 150 697.3
Congo, Dem. Rep. 13 155 503.3 215.9 16 306 6516.3
Congo, Rep. 8 67 288.8 220.1 15 174 1422.2
Costa Rica 11 77 23.8 0.0 19 120 150.3
Côte d’Ivoire 11 45 134.0 225.2 22 569 194.9
Croatia 12 49 13.4 22.7 28 278 1236.7
Czech Republic 10 40 9.5 39.0 31 245 16.1
Denmark 3 5 0.0 47.0 7 70 71.3
Dominican Republic 10 75 30.9 1.2 12 150 255.1
Ecuador 14 69 38.1 9.2 19 149 100.0
Egypt 10 34 104.9 739.8 30 263 1067.1
El Salvador 12 40 118.0 124.4 22 144 204.2
Eritrea 13 91 128.6 535.2 19 187 1254.2
Estonia 6 35 6.2 41.4 12 116 41.4
Ethiopia 7 32 65.1 1532.0 12 133 1746.5
Fiji 8 46 28.4 0.0 29 117 35.3
Finland 3 14 1.2 28.0 17 56 76.2
France 7 8 1.2 0.0 10 185 78.0
Georgia 8 21 13.7 46.8 29 282 144.6
Germany 9 24 4.7 47.6 11 165 82.8
Ghana 12 81 78.6 27.9 16 127 1549.7
Greece 15 38 24.6 121.4 17 176 71.9
Guatemala 15 39 58.4 29.3 22 294 667.8
Guinea 13 49 178.8 405.0 29 278 512.2