Papua New Guinea vs South Africa: Starting a business - Score

Papua New Guinea
80.15
in 2019
South Africa
81.22
in 2019
Papua New Guinea rank
143rd
South Africa rank
140th

Starting a business - Score over time

  • Papua New Guinea
  • South Africa
020406080200320112019

How they compare

South Africa currently reports 81.22 against 80.15 in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 1.07.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 17 shared years of data; in 2003 it was Papua New Guinea ahead.

Papua New Guinea ranks 143rd and South Africa ranks 140th of 191 countries.

Across the 2 decades both report, Papua New Guinea averaged higher in 1 and South Africa in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Papua New Guinea South Africa Difference Ahead
2000s 76.61 75.93 0.6874 Papua New Guinea
2010s 78.2 80.68 2.48 South Africa

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher starting a business - score, Papua New Guinea or South Africa?
South Africa, at 81.22 against 80.15 in Papua New Guinea as of 2019.
What is the difference in starting a business - score between Papua New Guinea and South Africa?
1.07, with South Africa ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Papua New Guinea and South Africa?
17 years are reported by both, from 2003 to 2019.
How do Papua New Guinea and South Africa rank globally for starting a business - score?
Papua New Guinea ranks 143rd and South Africa ranks 140th of 191 countries.
Where does this data come from?
The World Bank, published as Starting a business - Score. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Papua New Guinea vs South Africa: Starting a business - Score. Statizoid. Retrieved 04 September 2026, from https://private-sector.statizoid.com/compare/starting-a-business-score/papua-new-guinea/south-africa/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://private-sector.statizoid.com/compare/starting-a-business-score/papua-new-guinea/south-africa/">Papua New Guinea vs South Africa: Starting a business - Score</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Starting a business - Score
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
191 places, 3,094 data points, 2003–2019
Last refreshed

The score for starting a business is the simple average of the scores for each of the component indicators: the procedures, time and cost for an entrepreneur to start and formally operate a business, as well as the paid-in minimum capital requirement.