Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Kenya
Kenya: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 88.8% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Kenya, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Kenya is 88.8%, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.5% on the previous year and up 20.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Kenya peaked at 88.8% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 69.2%, in 2005.
Kenya ranks 144th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom 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 Kenya, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 72.7% | — |
| 2004 | 73.1% | +0.6% |
| 2005 | 69.2% | -5.4% |
| 2006 | 70.6% | +2.0% |
| 2007 | 70.9% | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 75.4% | +6.3% |
| 2009 | 73.6% | -2.3% |
| 2010 | 72.4% | -1.7% |
| 2011 | 73.3% | +1.2% |
| 2012 | 76.2% | +4.1% |
| 2013 | 77.8% | +2.0% |
| 2014 | 73.0% | -6.2% |
| 2015 | 78.2% | +7.2% |
| 2016 | 85.9% | +9.8% |
| 2017 | 86.8% | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 87.5% | +0.8% |
| 2019 | 88.8% | +1.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 72.2% | 69.2% | 75.4% | 7 |
| 2010s | 80.0% | 72.4% | 88.8% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Kenya
More private sector data for Kenya
- Merchandise trade 22.2% (2025)
- Food imports 16.3% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 56.6% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 21.61 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 49.2% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 30.7% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 8.60 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 149.5 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0633 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 4.42 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Kenya?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Kenya was 88.8% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Kenya?
- The highest recorded value was 88.8% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Kenya?
- The lowest recorded value was 69.2% in 2005.
- How does Kenya rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Kenya ranks 144th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Kenya?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Kenya 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.