Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Somalia
Somalia: Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score was 0.9% in 2019. ◆ Volatile
Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Somalia, 2015–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Somalia is 0.9%, measured in 2019.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 62.4% on the previous year and down 91.1% over five years.
That places Somalia 190th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Somalia, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10.0% | — |
| 2016 | 11.8% | +17.6% |
| 2017 | 0.0% | -100.0% |
| 2018 | 2.4% | — |
| 2019 | 0.9% | -62.4% |
Somalia compared with similar countries
- Somalia's 0.9% is below the median for low income countries, which is 81.8%, 1% of the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Somalia's 0.9% is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 89.1%, 1% of the median. (48 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Somalia
- 187 Micronesia, Federated States of 29.3% compare
- 188 Chad 15.4% compare
- 189 Haiti 10.2% compare
- 191 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.0% compare
More private sector data for Somalia
- Merchandise trade 40.2% (2025)
- Food imports 22.4% (1982)
- Manufactures imports 54.7% (1982)
- Merchandise imports 3.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 93.7% (1982)
- Manufactures exports 1.3% (1982)
- Merchandise exports 1.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 66.14 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -11.74 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Somalia?
- Starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Somalia was 0.9% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 11.8% in 2016.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0% in 2017.
- How does Somalia rank for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score?
- Somalia ranks 190th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Somalia 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.