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Enforcing contracts, cost (% of claim) by country

Cost is recorded as a percentage of the claim, assumed to be equivalent to 200% of income per capita. Only official costs required by law are recorded, including court and enforcement costs and average attorney fees where the use of attorneys is mandatory or common. For more information, visit...

Countries reporting
49
Highest
149.5%
Sierra Leone
Lowest
14.3%
Tanzania
Median
38.6%
Years covered
10
2003–2012
Data points
545

What the numbers show

Enforcing contracts, cost (% of claim) is currently reported for 49 countries. The highest value is 149.5% in Sierra Leone; the lowest is 14.3% in Tanzania.

The median across all reporting countries is 38.6%, and the mean is 47.3%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10.

Over the past decade 3 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 253.4%), and the largest decrease in Malawi (down 33.9%).

Enforcing contracts, cost: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Sierra Leone 149.5% 2012 unchanged flat
2 Democratic Republic of Congo 147.6% 2012 down 2.8% flat
3 Mozambique 142.5% 2012 unchanged flat
4 Zimbabwe 113.1% 2012 up 253.4% volatile
5 Malawi 94.1% 2012 down 33.9% falling
6 Comoros 89.4% 2012 unchanged flat
8 Burkina Faso 81.7% 2012 down 6.7% falling
9 Rwanda 78.7% 2012 down 7.4% falling
10 Benin 64.7% 2012 unchanged flat
11 Niger 59.6% 2012 unchanged flat
12 Eswatini 56.1% 2012 unchanged flat
13 Congo 53.2% 2012 unchanged flat
14 Mali 52.0% 2012 unchanged flat
15 Sao Tome and Principe 50.5% 2012 unchanged flat
16 Togo 47.5% 2012 unchanged flat
17 Kenya 47.2% 2012 up 38.0% rising
18 Cameroon 46.6% 2012 unchanged flat
19 Chad 45.7% 2012 unchanged flat
20 Guinea 45.0% 2012 unchanged flat
21 Uganda 44.9% 2012 unchanged flat
22 Angola 44.4% 2012 unchanged flat
23 Madagascar 42.4% 2012 unchanged flat
24 Cote d'Ivoire 41.7% 2012 unchanged flat
25 Zambia 38.7% 2012 unchanged flat
26 Burundi 38.6% 2012 down 6.1% falling
27 Gambia 37.9% 2012 unchanged flat
28 Namibia 35.8% 2012 unchanged flat
29 Liberia 35.0% 2012 unchanged flat
30 Gabon 34.3% 2012 unchanged flat
31 Djibouti 34.0% 2012 unchanged flat
33 Nigeria 32.0% 2012 unchanged flat
34 Lesotho 31.3% 2012 unchanged flat
35 Botswana 28.1% 2012 unchanged flat
36 Senegal 26.5% 2012 unchanged flat
37 Egypt 26.2% 2012 unchanged flat
38 Morocco 25.2% 2012 unchanged flat
39 Guinea-Bissau 25.0% 2012 unchanged flat
40 Mauritania 23.2% 2012 unchanged flat
41 Ghana 23.0% 2012 unchanged flat
42 Eritrea 22.6% 2012 unchanged flat
43 Algeria 21.9% 2012 unchanged flat
44 Tunisia 21.8% 2012 unchanged flat
45 Cape Verde 19.8% 2012 down 9.2% falling
45 Sudan 19.8% 2012 unchanged flat
47 Equatorial Guinea 18.5% 2012 unchanged flat
48 Mauritius 16.3% 2012 unchanged flat
49 Seychelles 15.4% 2012 up 7.7% rising
50 Ethiopia 15.2% 2012 unchanged flat
51 Tanzania 14.3% 2012 unchanged flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Enforcing contracts, cost (% of claim)
Unit
% of claim
Source
World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
57 places, 545 data points, 2003–2012
Last refreshed

Cost is recorded as a percentage of the claim, assumed to be equivalent to 200% of income per capita. Only official costs required by law are recorded, including court and enforcement costs and average attorney fees where the use of attorneys is mandatory or common. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.