Starting a business: Procedures required - Men (number) - Score (Men) in Maldives
Maldives: Starting a business: Procedures required - Men (number) - Score (Men) was 70.59 in 2019. ▼ Falling
Starting a business: Procedures required - Men (number) - Score in Maldives, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Maldives recorded 70.59 for starting a business: procedures required - men (number) - score in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: procedures required - men (number) - score in Maldives peaked at 76.47 in 2003 and was at its lowest, 70.59, in 2009.
Maldives ranks 77th of 191 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.
Starting a business: Procedures required - Men (number) - Score (Men) in Maldives, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 76.47 | — |
| 2004 | 76.47 | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 76.47 | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 76.47 | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 76.47 | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 76.47 | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 70.59 | -7.7% |
| 2010 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
Maldives compared with similar countries
- Maldives's 70.59 is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 64.71, 1.1× the median. (56 countries reporting)
- Maldives's 70.59 is above the median for South Asia, which is 58.82, 1.2× the median. (6 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 75.63 | 70.59 | 76.47 | 7 |
| 2010s | 70.59 | 70.59 | 70.59 | 10 |
Countries ranked near Maldives
- 77 United States 70.59 compare
- 77 Bahrain 70.59 compare
- 77 Chile 70.59 compare
- 77 Djibouti 70.59 compare
- 77 Gambia 70.59 compare
- 77 Grenada 70.59 compare
- 77 Guatemala 70.59 compare
- 77 Guinea 70.59 compare
- 77 Hungary 70.59 compare
- 77 Lesotho 70.59 compare
- 77 Myanmar 70.59 compare
- 77 North Macedonia 70.59 compare
- 77 Papua New Guinea 70.59 compare
- 77 Portugal 70.59 compare
- 77 Puerto Rico 70.59 compare
- 77 Romania 70.59 compare
- 77 Sao Tome and Principe 70.59 compare
- 77 Switzerland 70.59 compare
- 77 East Timor 70.59 compare
- 77 Ukraine 70.59 compare
- 77 Yemen 70.59 compare
More private sector data for Maldives
- Merchandise trade 52.5% (2025)
- Food imports 22.0% (2025)
- Manufactures imports 53.4% (2025)
- Merchandise imports 3.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service imports 1.88 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 97.0% (2025)
- Manufactures exports 0.2% (2025)
- Merchandise exports 444.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service exports 5.79 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 838.25 current US$ per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: procedures required - men (number) - score in Maldives?
- Starting a business: procedures required - men (number) - score in Maldives was 70.59 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - men (number) - score recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 76.47 in 2003.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - men (number) - score recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 70.59 in 2009.
- How does Maldives rank for starting a business: procedures required - men (number) - score?
- Maldives ranks 77th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: procedures required - men (number) - score rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Maldives data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Starting a business: Procedures required - Men (number) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The score for the number of procedures for men benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score is indicated on a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.