Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Philippines
Philippines: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 88.4% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Philippines, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Philippines recorded 88.4% for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in 2019.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 3.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Philippines peaked at 90.2% in 2017 and was at its lowest, 80.5%, in 2003.
Philippines ranks 146th 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 Philippines, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 80.5% | — |
| 2004 | 83.0% | +3.1% |
| 2005 | 83.4% | +0.5% |
| 2006 | 84.6% | +1.4% |
| 2007 | 83.7% | -1.0% |
| 2008 | 84.8% | +1.2% |
| 2009 | 85.6% | +0.9% |
| 2010 | 85.1% | -0.5% |
| 2011 | 87.0% | +2.1% |
| 2012 | 87.2% | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 87.6% | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 89.4% | +2.0% |
| 2015 | 89.8% | +0.5% |
| 2016 | 90.0% | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 90.2% | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 88.0% | -2.4% |
| 2019 | 88.4% | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 83.7% | 80.5% | 85.6% | 7 |
| 2010s | 88.3% | 85.1% | 90.2% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Philippines
More private sector data for Philippines
- Merchandise trade 46.2% (2025)
- Food imports 15.0% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 65.2% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 141.20 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 10.4% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 77.2% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 83.72 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 716.89 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1719 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 14.71 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Philippines?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Philippines was 88.4% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Philippines?
- The highest recorded value was 90.2% in 2017.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Philippines?
- The lowest recorded value was 80.5% in 2003.
- How does Philippines rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Philippines ranks 146th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Philippines?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Philippines 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.