The Starting a Business Index is a sub-index of the World Bank Ease of Doing Business Index.

Authors of the methodology

This methodology was developed by Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-De-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer in a paper, "The Regulation of Entry".[failed verification]

Djankov is the creator of the annual Doing Business report, once a publication of the World Bank Group. The report was discontinued in 2021.

Ranking

Ranking of all nations from 2010 report [failed verification] The has New Zealand at the top again.[citation needed]

2010 Rank2009 RankCountry
11New Zealand
22Canada
33Australia
44Singapore
55Georgia
613Macedonia
798Belarus
86United States
97Ireland
108Mauritius
1164Rwanda
1260Madagascar
1331Saudi Arabia
1434Kyrgyzstan
1510Puerto Rico
169United Kingdom
1711Azerbaijan
1816Hong Kong
1912Jamaica
20131Samoa
2165Armenia
2214France
2324Afghanistan
2443Egypt
2515Cyprus
2642Slovenia
2717Panama
2818Denmark
29119Taiwan
3020Finland
3121Belgium
3222Tonga
3319Iceland
3428Israel
3525Norway
3636Saint Lucia
3723Estonia
3826Dominica
3929Hungary
3927Marshall Islands
4133Sri Lanka
4230Romania
4332Sweden
44118United Arab Emirates
4541Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
4668Albania
4738Tunisia
4873Iran
4937Maldives
5081Bulgaria
5135Latvia
5240Grenada
53133North Korea
5353Yemen
5546Thailand
5644Turkey
5762Liberia
5858Sierra Leone
5947Antigua and Barbuda
6039Portugal
6148Bahamas
6278Oman
6350Bahrain
6380Pakistan
6556Trinidad and Tobago
6649Slovakia
6745South Africa
6857Qatar
6955Chile
7051Netherlands
7152Switzerland
7270Luxembourg
73108Serbia
7482Colombia
7554Italy
7659Morocco
7790Moldova
7861Mongolia
7962Federated States of Micronesia
8066Bhutan
8169Seychelles
8279Kazakhstan
8383Botswana
84101Germany
85107Montenegro
8674Saint Kitts and Nevis
8775Nepal
8876Malaysia
8985Laos
90114Mexico
9167Japan
9271Uzbekistan
93122Ethiopia
9472Zambia
9587Nicaragua
96143Mozambique
97103Guyana
9893Bangladesh
9977Lithuania
10089Paraguay
101100Croatia
10294Senegal
10384Palau
10492Fiji
10496Papua New Guinea
10688Russia
10786Dominican Republic
10899Lebanon
10895Nigeria
11097Vanuatu
111104Solomon Islands
112117Peru
11391Czech Republic
114102Gambia
115115Burkina Faso
116109Vietnam
117145Poland
118111Sudan
119111Kiribati
120111Tanzania
121105El Salvador
122106Austria
123116Namibia
124110Kenya
125119Jordan
126127Brazil
127123Costa Rica
128124Malawi
129129Uganda
130132Burundi
131128Lesotho
132121Uruguay
133125Syria
134126Ukraine
135136Ghana
136164Cape Verde
137134Kuwait
138135Argentina
139157Mali
140130Greece
140136São Tomé and Príncipe
142141Venezuela
143169Tajikistan
144146Honduras
145144Zimbabwe
146139Spain
147138Belize
148141Algeria
149140Mauritania
150150Timor-Leste
151152China
152147Gabon
153149Brunei
154153DR Congo
155151Benin
156147Guatemala
157161Niger
158154Swaziland
159168Central African Republic
160162Bosnia and Herzegovina
161173Indonesia
162155Philippines
163160Ecuador
164156Kosovo
165158Angola
166159Congo
167165Bolivia
168163Comoros
169166India
170181Togo
171172Suriname
172170Ivory Coast
173171Cambodia
174174Cameroon
175177Iraq
176167Palestine
177175Djibouti
178176Equatorial Guinea
179178Guinea
180179Haiti
181180Eritrea
182182Chad
183183Guinea-Bissau

See also