Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Bulgaria
Bulgaria: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 99.5% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Bulgaria, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
In 2019, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Bulgaria stood at 99.5%. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Bulgaria peaked at 99.5% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 94.8%, in 2003.
That places Bulgaria 28th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Bulgaria, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 94.8% | — |
| 2004 | 94.9% | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 95.2% | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 96.1% | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 96.2% | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 98.5% | +2.4% |
| 2009 | 98.7% | +0.2% |
| 2010 | 98.7% | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 98.8% | +0.1% |
| 2012 | 99.1% | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 99.1% | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 99.2% | +0.1% |
| 2015 | 99.3% | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 99.3% | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 99.4% | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 99.4% | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 99.5% | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 96.3% | 94.8% | 98.7% | 7 |
| 2010s | 99.2% | 98.7% | 99.5% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Bulgaria
More private sector data for Bulgaria
- Merchandise trade 83.5% (2025)
- Food imports 13.2% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 60.0% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 60.89 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 15.2% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 53.4% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 48.32 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 7,511 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.3695 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 0.8979 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Bulgaria?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Bulgaria was 99.5% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Bulgaria?
- The highest recorded value was 99.5% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Bulgaria?
- The lowest recorded value was 94.8% in 2003.
- How does Bulgaria rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Bulgaria ranks 28th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Bulgaria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Bulgaria data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The score for the cost for men benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.