Protecting investors, shareholder suits index in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea: Protecting investors, shareholder suits index was 4 in 2012. ▬ Flat
Protecting investors, shareholder suits index in Equatorial Guinea, 2005–2012
Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
Analysis
Equatorial Guinea recorded 4 for protecting investors, shareholder suits index in 2012. That is the highest value across all 8 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over ten years.
That places Equatorial Guinea 31st out of 51 countries with data for 2012, putting it in the middle of the range.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| 2010s | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Countries ranked near Equatorial Guinea
More private sector data for Equatorial Guinea
- Merchandise trade 33.5% (2025)
- Food imports 31.8% (1983)
- Manufactures imports 64.2% (1983)
- Merchandise imports 1.70 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 57.9% (1983)
- Manufactures exports 4.0% (1983)
- Merchandise exports 2.60 billion current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service exports 4.88 million current US$ (1996)
- Commercial service imports 184.58 million current US$ (1996)
- Merchandise imports from economies in the Arab World 2.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is protecting investors, shareholder suits index in Equatorial Guinea?
- Protecting investors, shareholder suits index in Equatorial Guinea was 4 in 2012, according to World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).
- What is the highest protecting investors, shareholder suits index recorded in Equatorial Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 4 in 2005.
- What is the lowest protecting investors, shareholder suits index recorded in Equatorial Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 4 in 2005.
- How does Equatorial Guinea rank for protecting investors, shareholder suits index?
- Equatorial Guinea ranks 31st out of 51 countries with data for 2012.
- Is protecting investors, shareholder suits index rising or falling in Equatorial Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Equatorial Guinea data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/), published as part of Protecting investors, shareholder suits index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Doing Business 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/.