Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Gabon
Gabon: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 93.3% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Gabon, 2005–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Gabon recorded 93.3% for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in 2019.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.7% on the previous year and up 2.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Gabon peaked at 96.9% in 2018 and was at its lowest, 86.1%, in 2005.
That places Gabon 121st 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 15 years of available data.
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Gabon, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 86.1% | — |
| 2006 | 87.9% | +2.1% |
| 2007 | 87.2% | -0.8% |
| 2008 | 89.9% | +3.1% |
| 2009 | 91.1% | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 89.0% | -2.3% |
| 2011 | 91.4% | +2.6% |
| 2012 | 92.7% | +1.5% |
| 2013 | 93.7% | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 93.5% | -0.2% |
| 2015 | 92.5% | -1.2% |
| 2016 | 92.9% | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 96.4% | +3.8% |
| 2018 | 96.9% | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 93.3% | -3.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 88.4% | 86.1% | 91.1% | 5 |
| 2010s | 93.2% | 89.0% | 96.9% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Gabon
- 118 Seychelles 93.7% compare
- 119 Marshall Islands 93.6% compare
- 120 Cape Verde 93.5% compare
- 122 Myanmar 93.3% compare
- 123 Bosnia and Herzegovina 93.2% compare
- 124 Dominican Republic 93.2% compare
More private sector data for Gabon
- Merchandise trade 72.8% (2025)
- Food imports 15.7% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 76.4% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 4.00 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 0.9% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 17.8% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 11.60 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 4,473 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.5414 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -10.77 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Gabon?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Gabon was 93.3% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Gabon?
- The highest recorded value was 96.9% in 2018.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Gabon?
- The lowest recorded value was 86.1% in 2005.
- How does Gabon rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Gabon ranks 121st out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Gabon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Gabon 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.