Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Ecuador
Ecuador: Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score was 83.5% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Ecuador, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Ecuador is 83.5%, measured in 2019.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Ecuador peaked at 89.0% in 2015 and was at its lowest, 74.2%, in 2003.
That places Ecuador 156th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Ecuador, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 74.2% | — |
| 2004 | 76.3% | +2.8% |
| 2005 | 81.0% | +6.1% |
| 2006 | 84.1% | +3.9% |
| 2007 | 85.4% | +1.5% |
| 2008 | 82.3% | -3.6% |
| 2009 | 82.5% | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 83.7% | +1.5% |
| 2011 | 85.6% | +2.3% |
| 2012 | 85.0% | -0.6% |
| 2013 | 87.4% | +2.7% |
| 2014 | 88.0% | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 89.0% | +1.1% |
| 2016 | 83.8% | -5.8% |
| 2017 | 83.0% | -0.9% |
| 2018 | 83.4% | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 83.5% | +0.2% |
Ecuador compared with similar countries
- Ecuador's 83.5% is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 95.5%, 87% of the median. (56 countries reporting)
- Ecuador's 83.5% is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 92.9%, 90% of the median. (33 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 80.8% | 74.2% | 85.4% | 7 |
| 2010s | 85.2% | 83.0% | 89.0% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
More private sector data for Ecuador
- Merchandise trade 53.6% (2025)
- Food imports 12.2% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 59.2% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 32.65 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 53.7% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 4.9% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 37.15 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 2,031 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.2851 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 7.93 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Ecuador?
- Starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Ecuador was 83.5% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 89.0% in 2015.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 74.2% in 2003.
- How does Ecuador rank for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score?
- Ecuador ranks 156th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ecuador 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.