Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 90.7% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Papua New Guinea, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Papua New Guinea recorded 90.7% for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in 2019.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.1% on the previous year and up 0.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Papua New Guinea peaked at 92.2% in 2016 and was at its lowest, 85.6%, in 2003.
That places Papua New Guinea 140th 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 Papua New Guinea, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 85.6% | — |
| 2004 | 85.9% | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 86.2% | +0.3% |
| 2006 | 88.1% | +2.3% |
| 2007 | 87.9% | -0.3% |
| 2008 | 89.2% | +1.5% |
| 2009 | 90.6% | +1.6% |
| 2010 | 86.5% | -4.5% |
| 2011 | 88.1% | +1.8% |
| 2012 | 89.6% | +1.7% |
| 2013 | 90.1% | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 90.3% | +0.2% |
| 2015 | 91.4% | +1.2% |
| 2016 | 92.2% | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 89.8% | -2.6% |
| 2018 | 89.8% | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 90.7% | +1.1% |
Papua New Guinea compared with similar countries
- Papua New Guinea's 90.7% is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 89.9%, 1.0× the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Papua New Guinea's 90.7% is below the median for East Asia & Pacific, which is 96.8%, 94% of the median. (28 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 87.6% | 85.6% | 90.6% | 7 |
| 2010s | 89.8% | 86.5% | 92.2% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea
More private sector data for Papua New Guinea
- Merchandise trade 62.0% (2025)
- Food imports 16.5% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 64.7% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 4.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 19.7% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 1.8% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 15.54 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 1,444 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.4782 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 11.21 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Papua New Guinea?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Papua New Guinea was 90.7% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 92.2% in 2016.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Papua New Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 85.6% in 2003.
- How does Papua New Guinea rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Papua New Guinea ranks 140th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Papua New Guinea 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.