Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Yemen
Yemen: Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score was 79.9% in 2019. ◆ Volatile
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Yemen, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Yemen recorded 79.9% for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 97.0% on the previous year and up 36.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Yemen peaked at 79.9% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.0%, in 2003.
Yemen ranks 164th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Yemen, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 0.0% | — |
| 2004 | 0.0% | — |
| 2005 | 0.0% | — |
| 2006 | 0.0% | — |
| 2007 | 10.6% | — |
| 2008 | 53.5% | +404.9% |
| 2009 | 58.5% | +9.4% |
| 2010 | 58.9% | +0.7% |
| 2011 | 58.1% | -1.5% |
| 2012 | 64.0% | +10.2% |
| 2013 | 66.9% | +4.5% |
| 2014 | 66.8% | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 66.0% | -1.3% |
| 2016 | 58.9% | -10.7% |
| 2017 | 63.3% | +7.4% |
| 2018 | 40.6% | -35.9% |
| 2019 | 79.9% | +97.0% |
Yemen compared with similar countries
- Yemen's 79.9% is below the median for low income countries, which is 81.8%, 98% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Yemen's 79.9% is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 96.6%, 83% of the median. (23 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Starting a business: Cost - Men (% of income per capita) - Score in Yemen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | +404.9% | 10.6% | 53.5% |
| 2019 | +97.0% | 40.6% | 79.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 17.5% | 0.0% | 58.5% | 7 |
| 2010s | 62.4% | 40.6% | 79.9% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Yemen
- 161 Kiribati 82.5% compare
- 162 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 81.4% compare
- 163 Djibouti 80.2% compare
- 165 Palestine, State of 79.9% compare
- 166 Uganda 79.7% compare
- 167 Tanzania, United Republic of 79.7% compare
More private sector data for Yemen
- Merchandise trade 24.7% (2025)
- Food imports 39.1% (2019)
- Manufactures imports 31.4% (2019)
- Merchandise imports 4.65 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 99.3% (2019)
- Manufactures exports 0.6% (2019)
- Merchandise exports 196.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 4.69 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0264 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2018)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -14.41 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Yemen?
- Starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score in Yemen was 79.9% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Yemen?
- The highest recorded value was 79.9% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Yemen?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0% in 2003.
- How does Yemen rank for starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score?
- Yemen ranks 164th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - men (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Yemen?
- Over the last ten years it is up 36.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Yemen 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.