Starting a business: Paid-in Minimum capital (% of income per capita) in Cameroon
Cameroon: Starting a business: Paid-in Minimum capital (% of income per capita) was 97.0% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Paid-in Minimum capital (% of income per capita) in Cameroon, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
In 2019, starting a business: paid-in minimum capital (% of income per capita) in Cameroon stood at 97.0%. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of up 78.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: paid-in minimum capital (% of income per capita) in Cameroon peaked at 97.0% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 38.7%, in 2003.
That places Cameroon 172nd 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: Paid-in Minimum capital (% of income per capita) in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 38.7% | — |
| 2004 | 42.0% | +8.6% |
| 2005 | 45.9% | +9.2% |
| 2006 | 53.2% | +15.9% |
| 2007 | 55.7% | +4.8% |
| 2008 | 53.0% | -4.9% |
| 2009 | 54.3% | +2.4% |
| 2010 | 52.0% | -4.1% |
| 2011 | 54.3% | +4.3% |
| 2012 | 57.9% | +6.7% |
| 2013 | 57.1% | -1.5% |
| 2014 | 60.9% | +6.7% |
| 2015 | 64.1% | +5.3% |
| 2016 | 65.6% | +2.3% |
| 2017 | 95.9% | +46.1% |
| 2018 | 97.0% | +1.2% |
| 2019 | 97.0% | +0.0% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 97.0% is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 100.0%, 97% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 97.0% is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 100.0%, 97% of the median. (48 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Starting a business: Paid-in Minimum capital (% of income per capita) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | +46.1% | 65.6% | 95.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 49.0% | 38.7% | 55.7% | 7 |
| 2010s | 70.2% | 52.0% | 97.0% | 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: paid-in minimum capital (% of income per capita) in Cameroon?
- Starting a business: paid-in minimum capital (% of income per capita) in Cameroon was 97.0% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: paid-in minimum capital (% of income per capita) recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 97.0% in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business: paid-in minimum capital (% of income per capita) recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 38.7% in 2003.
- How does Cameroon rank for starting a business: paid-in minimum capital (% of income per capita)?
- Cameroon ranks 172nd out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: paid-in minimum capital (% of income per capita) rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 78.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Starting a business: Paid-in Minimum capital (% of income per capita) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The score for the paid-in minimum capital requirement 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.