Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Panama
Panama: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 97.1% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Panama, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Panama recorded 97.1% for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 2.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Panama peaked at 97.1% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 92.5%, in 2003.
That places Panama 80th 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 Panama, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 92.5% | — |
| 2004 | 92.7% | +0.2% |
| 2005 | 92.8% | +0.1% |
| 2006 | 93.1% | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 93.5% | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 94.2% | +0.8% |
| 2009 | 94.9% | +0.7% |
| 2010 | 94.9% | -0.0% |
| 2011 | 95.1% | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 95.3% | +0.2% |
| 2013 | 96.2% | +0.9% |
| 2014 | 96.6% | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 96.6% | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 96.7% | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 96.7% | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 97.0% | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 97.1% | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 93.4% | 92.5% | 94.9% | 7 |
| 2010s | 96.2% | 94.9% | 97.1% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Panama
More private sector data for Panama
- Merchandise trade 41.6% (2025)
- Food imports 18.7% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 60.2% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 25.76 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 73.6% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 10.9% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 11.90 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 2,604 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1316 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -9.7 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Panama?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Panama was 97.1% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Panama?
- The highest recorded value was 97.1% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Panama?
- The lowest recorded value was 92.5% in 2003.
- How does Panama rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Panama ranks 80th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Panama?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Panama 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.