Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Palestine
Palestine: Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score was 79.9% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Palestine, 2004–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Palestine recorded 79.9% for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in 2019. That is the highest value across all 16 years on record.
That represents a change of up 4.3% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Palestine peaked at 79.9% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 38.8%, in 2006.
That places Palestine 165th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 16 years of available data.
Starting a business: Cost - Women (% of income per capita) - Score in Palestine, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 53.5% | — |
| 2005 | 53.5% | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 38.8% | -27.5% |
| 2007 | 45.9% | +18.3% |
| 2008 | 59.5% | +29.7% |
| 2009 | 72.1% | +21.1% |
| 2010 | 52.8% | -26.8% |
| 2011 | 51.5% | -2.5% |
| 2012 | 54.0% | +4.8% |
| 2013 | 56.7% | +5.1% |
| 2014 | 56.4% | -0.6% |
| 2015 | 58.4% | +3.5% |
| 2016 | 76.6% | +31.2% |
| 2017 | 77.5% | +1.2% |
| 2018 | 76.6% | -1.2% |
| 2019 | 79.9% | +4.3% |
Palestine compared with similar countries
- Palestine's 79.9% is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 89.9%, 89% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Palestine'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)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 53.9% | 38.8% | 72.1% | 6 |
| 2010s | 64.0% | 51.5% | 79.9% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Palestine
More private sector data for Palestine
- Food imports 30.9% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 45.9% (2023)
- Food exports 21.4% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 63.3% (2023)
- Commercial service exports (current US$), per capita 103.2 current US$ per person (2025)
- Commercial service exports 558.70 million current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0325 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Transport services 47.1% (2025)
- Commercial service imports (current US$), per capita 227.75 current US$ per person (2025)
- Computer, communications and other services 8.6% (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Palestine?
- Starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score in Palestine was 79.9% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Palestine?
- The highest recorded value was 79.9% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score recorded in Palestine?
- The lowest recorded value was 38.8% in 2006.
- How does Palestine rank for starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score?
- Palestine ranks 165th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: cost - women (% of income per capita) - score rising or falling in Palestine?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Palestine 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.