Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Maldives
Maldives: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 98.0% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Maldives, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Maldives is 98.0%, measured in 2019.
That represents a change of up 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Maldives peaked at 98.0% in 2018 and was at its lowest, 93.0%, in 2005.
That places Maldives 68th 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 Maldives, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 93.5% | — |
| 2004 | 93.9% | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 93.0% | -0.9% |
| 2006 | 93.0% | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 93.3% | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 94.3% | +1.0% |
| 2009 | 95.0% | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 95.3% | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 95.5% | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 97.0% | +1.5% |
| 2013 | 96.9% | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 96.9% | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 97.5% | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 97.4% | -0.2% |
| 2017 | 97.6% | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 98.0% | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 98.0% | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 93.7% | 93.0% | 95.0% | 7 |
| 2010s | 97.0% | 95.3% | 98.0% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Maldives
More private sector data for Maldives
- Merchandise trade 52.5% (2025)
- Food imports 21.2% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 53.7% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 3.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 94.4% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 1.2% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 444.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 838.25 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0574 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 15.93 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Maldives?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Maldives was 98.0% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 98.0% in 2018.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 93.0% in 2005.
- How does Maldives rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Maldives ranks 68th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Maldives 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.