Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Egypt
Egypt: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 89.9% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Egypt, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Egypt is 89.9%, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
The figure is up 14.2% on the previous year and up 13.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Egypt peaked at 89.9% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 34.1%, in 2005.
That places Egypt 142nd out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
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 Egypt, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 53.6% | — |
| 2004 | 55.3% | +3.2% |
| 2005 | 34.1% | -38.3% |
| 2006 | 52.7% | +54.3% |
| 2007 | 73.1% | +38.8% |
| 2008 | 77.5% | +6.1% |
| 2009 | 79.2% | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 84.5% | +6.8% |
| 2011 | 85.2% | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 85.7% | +0.6% |
| 2013 | 86.5% | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 87.0% | +0.5% |
| 2015 | 88.4% | +1.6% |
| 2016 | 88.7% | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 88.9% | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 78.7% | -11.4% |
| 2019 | 89.9% | +14.2% |
Egypt compared with similar countries
- Egypt's 89.9% is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 89.9%, 100% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Egypt's 89.9% is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 96.6%, 93% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Egypt changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | +54.3% | 34.1% | 52.7% |
| 2005 | -38.3% | 55.3% | 34.1% |
| 2007 | +38.8% | 52.7% | 73.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 60.8% | 34.1% | 79.2% | 7 |
| 2010s | 86.4% | 78.7% | 89.9% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Egypt
More private sector data for Egypt
- Merchandise trade 40.8% (2025)
- Food imports 20.4% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 52.2% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 97.54 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 21.9% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 51.9% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 51.40 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 434.27 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1407 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 21.67 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Egypt?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Egypt was 89.9% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Egypt?
- The highest recorded value was 89.9% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Egypt?
- The lowest recorded value was 34.1% in 2005.
- How does Egypt rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Egypt ranks 142nd out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Egypt?
- Over the last ten years it is up 13.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Egypt 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.