Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Uruguay
Uruguay: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 88.0% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Uruguay, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
In 2019, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Uruguay stood at 88.0%.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.8% on the previous year and up 9.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Uruguay peaked at 89.2% in 2015 and was at its lowest, 74.4%, in 2003.
Uruguay ranks 148th 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 Uruguay, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 74.4% | — |
| 2004 | 75.9% | +2.1% |
| 2005 | 78.0% | +2.8% |
| 2006 | 77.9% | -0.2% |
| 2007 | 77.0% | -1.1% |
| 2008 | 78.2% | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 80.0% | +2.3% |
| 2010 | 78.9% | -1.3% |
| 2011 | 87.5% | +10.9% |
| 2012 | 88.0% | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 88.2% | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 88.6% | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 89.2% | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 88.7% | -0.5% |
| 2017 | 88.7% | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 88.7% | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 88.0% | -0.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 77.4% | 74.4% | 80.0% | 7 |
| 2010s | 87.5% | 78.9% | 89.2% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Uruguay
More private sector data for Uruguay
- Merchandise trade 28.3% (2025)
- Food imports 14.1% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 69.6% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 12.95 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 65.3% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 18.9% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 11.23 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 3,318 current US$ 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 9.53 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Uruguay?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Uruguay was 88.0% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Uruguay?
- The highest recorded value was 89.2% in 2015.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Uruguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 74.4% in 2003.
- How does Uruguay rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Uruguay ranks 148th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Uruguay?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Uruguay 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.