Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 97.3% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Saudi Arabia, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Saudi Arabia is 97.3%, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Saudi Arabia peaked at 97.3% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 64.0%, in 2005.
Saudi Arabia ranks 76th of 191 countries on this measure, 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 Saudi Arabia, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 64.7% | — |
| 2004 | 67.5% | +4.4% |
| 2005 | 64.0% | -5.2% |
| 2006 | 64.8% | +1.2% |
| 2007 | 84.9% | +31.0% |
| 2008 | 91.0% | +7.2% |
| 2009 | 96.0% | +5.5% |
| 2010 | 94.9% | -1.2% |
| 2011 | 95.6% | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 96.5% | +0.9% |
| 2013 | 96.5% | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 97.2% | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 97.1% | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 97.0% | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 96.6% | -0.4% |
| 2018 | 96.7% | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 97.3% | +0.6% |
Saudi Arabia compared with similar countries
- Saudi Arabia's 97.3% is below the median for high income countries, which is 99.0%, 98% of the median. (62 countries reporting)
- Saudi Arabia's 97.3% is above the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 96.6%, 1.0× the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Saudi Arabia changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | +31.0% | 64.8% | 84.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 76.1% | 64.0% | 96.0% | 7 |
| 2010s | 96.5% | 94.9% | 97.3% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Saudi Arabia
More private sector data for Saudi Arabia
- Merchandise trade 44.2% (2025)
- Food imports 13.0% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 70.5% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 254.06 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 1.9% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 15.9% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 310.67 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 8,403 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.2433 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 1.69 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Saudi Arabia?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Saudi Arabia was 97.3% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Saudi Arabia?
- The highest recorded value was 97.3% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Saudi Arabia?
- The lowest recorded value was 64.0% in 2005.
- How does Saudi Arabia rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Saudi Arabia ranks 76th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Saudi Arabia?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Saudi Arabia 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.