Protecting investors, director liability index in Togo
Togo: Protecting investors, director liability index was 1 in 2012. ▬ Flat
Protecting investors, director liability index in Togo, 2005–2012
Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Analysis
Togo recorded 1 for protecting investors, director liability index in 2012. That is the highest value across all 8 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Togo ranks 32nd of 51 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010s | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Countries ranked near Togo
- 29 Djibouti 2 compare
- 29 Kenya 2 compare
- 29 Morocco 2 compare
- 32 Benin 1 compare
- 32 Burkina Faso 1 compare
- 32 Cameroon 1 compare
- 32 Central African Republic 1 compare
- 32 Chad 1 compare
- 32 Comoros, Union of the 1 compare
- 32 Congo, Republic of 1 compare
- 32 Côte d'Ivoire 1 compare
- 32 Equatorial Guinea, Republic of 1 compare
- 32 Gabon 1 compare
- 32 Gambia, The 1 compare
- 32 Guinea 1 compare
- 32 Guinea-Bissau 1 compare
- 32 Liberia 1 compare
- 32 Mali 1 compare
- 32 Niger 1 compare
- 32 São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of 1 compare
- 32 Senegal 1 compare
- 32 Zimbabwe 1 compare
More private sector data for Togo
- Merchandise trade 43.7% (2025)
- Food imports 17.6% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 64.9% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 3.40 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 33.0% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 39.3% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 1.80 billion current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service exports 479.01 million current US$ (2020)
- Transport services 67.8% (2020)
- Computer, communications and other services 14.8% (2020)
Frequently asked questions
- What is protecting investors, director liability index in Togo?
- Protecting investors, director liability index in Togo was 1 in 2012, according to World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
- What is the highest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Togo?
- The highest recorded value was 1 in 2005.
- What is the lowest protecting investors, director liability index recorded in Togo?
- The lowest recorded value was 1 in 2005.
- How does Togo rank for protecting investors, director liability index?
- Togo ranks 32nd out of 51 countries with data for 2012.
- Is protecting investors, director liability index rising or falling in Togo?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Togo data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/), published as part of Protecting investors, director liability index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Director liability index measures a plaintiff’s ability to hold directors of firms liable for damages to the company, that is, measures the strength of minority shareholder protections against directors’ misuse of corporate assets for personal gain. The indicators distinguish 3 dimensions of investor protection: transparency of transactions (extent of disclosure index), liability for self-dealing (extent of director liability index) and shareholders’ ability to sue officers and directors for misconduct (ease of shareholder suits index). The data come from a survey of corporate lawyers and are based on company laws, court rules of evidence and securities regulations. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.