Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Cameroon
Cameroon: Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score was 87.5% in 2019. ◆ Volatile
Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Cameroon, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
In 2019, starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Cameroon stood at 87.5%. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 146.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Cameroon peaked at 87.5% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 3.5%, in 2003.
Cameroon ranks 150th 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 - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3.5% | — |
| 2004 | 8.3% | +138.8% |
| 2005 | 13.9% | +67.3% |
| 2006 | 24.5% | +76.0% |
| 2007 | 28.2% | +15.1% |
| 2008 | 24.1% | -14.8% |
| 2009 | 35.6% | +47.9% |
| 2010 | 76.8% | +115.8% |
| 2011 | 79.7% | +3.8% |
| 2012 | 81.9% | +2.7% |
| 2013 | 81.7% | -0.3% |
| 2014 | 82.6% | +1.2% |
| 2015 | 83.4% | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 83.8% | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 82.0% | -2.1% |
| 2018 | 87.5% | +6.7% |
| 2019 | 87.5% | +0.0% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 87.5% is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 89.9%, 97% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 87.5% is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 89.1%, 98% of the median. (48 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Cameroon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | +138.8% | 3.5% | 8.3% |
| 2010 | +115.8% | 35.6% | 76.8% |
| 2006 | +76.0% | 13.9% | 24.5% |
| 2005 | +67.3% | 8.3% | 13.9% |
| 2009 | +47.9% | 24.1% | 35.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 19.7% | 3.5% | 35.6% | 7 |
| 2010s | 82.7% | 76.8% | 87.5% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
More private sector data for Cameroon
- Merchandise trade 24.6% (2025)
- Food imports 21.7% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 51.6% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 9.40 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 22.8% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 6.0% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 5.10 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 170.69 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0865 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -4.92 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Cameroon?
- Starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Cameroon was 87.5% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 87.5% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 3.5% in 2003.
- How does Cameroon rank for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score?
- Cameroon ranks 150th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 146.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Cameroon data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Starting a business: Cost - Women (% 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 women 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.