Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Malawi
Malawi: Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score was 83.7% in 2019. ◆ Volatile
Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Malawi, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Malawi is 83.7%, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
The figure is up 3.7% on the previous year and up 82.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Malawi peaked at 83.7% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.0%, in 2006.
That places Malawi 155th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it 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 Malawi, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 41.9% | — |
| 2004 | 29.6% | -29.4% |
| 2005 | 30.2% | +2.0% |
| 2006 | 0.0% | -100.0% |
| 2007 | 5.7% | — |
| 2008 | 37.1% | +554.7% |
| 2009 | 46.0% | +24.1% |
| 2010 | 45.8% | -0.5% |
| 2011 | 54.6% | +19.2% |
| 2012 | 29.7% | -45.5% |
| 2013 | 40.0% | +34.4% |
| 2014 | 46.7% | +16.8% |
| 2015 | 57.7% | +23.6% |
| 2016 | 78.9% | +36.7% |
| 2017 | 77.7% | -1.5% |
| 2018 | 80.7% | +3.9% |
| 2019 | 83.7% | +3.7% |
Malawi compared with similar countries
- Malawi's 83.7% is above the median for low income countries, which is 81.8%, 1.0× the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Malawi's 83.7% is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 89.1%, 94% of the median. (48 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Malawi 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 | +554.7% | 5.7% | 37.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 27.2% | 0.0% | 46.0% | 7 |
| 2010s | 59.5% | 29.7% | 83.7% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
More private sector data for Malawi
- Merchandise trade 30.9% (2025)
- Food imports 11.8% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 68.1% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 3.66 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 90.2% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 8.0% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 947.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 42.63 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0635 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -1.15 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Malawi?
- Starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Malawi was 83.7% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 83.7% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0% in 2006.
- How does Malawi rank for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score?
- Malawi ranks 155th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 82.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Malawi 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.