Starting a business: Procedures required - Men (number) in Somalia
Somalia: Starting a business: Procedures required - Men was 9 number in 2019. ▬ Flat
Starting a business: Procedures required - Men in Somalia, 2015–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in number.
Analysis
Somalia recorded 9 number for starting a business: procedures required - men in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over five years.
Somalia ranks 29th of 191 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Starting a business: Procedures required - Men in Somalia, year by year
| Year | number | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 number | — |
| 2016 | 9 number | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 9 number | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 9 number | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 9 number | +0.0% |
Somalia compared with similar countries
- Somalia's 9 number is above the median for low income countries, which is 6.5 number, 1.4× the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Somalia's 9 number is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 7 number, 1.3× the median. (48 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Somalia
- 29 Bangladesh 9 number compare
- 29 Antigua and Barbuda 9 number compare
- 29 Belize 9 number compare
- 29 Botswana 9 number compare
- 29 Cape Verde 9 number compare
- 29 Cambodia 9 number compare
- 29 Comoros 9 number compare
- 29 Czechia 9 number compare
- 29 El Salvador 9 number compare
- 29 Germany 9 number compare
- 29 Laos 9 number compare
- 29 Seychelles 9 number compare
- 29 Sudan 9 number compare
- 29 Zimbabwe 9 number 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: procedures required - men in Somalia?
- Starting a business: procedures required - men in Somalia was 9 number in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - men recorded in Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 9 number in 2015.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - men recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 9 number in 2015.
- How does Somalia rank for starting a business: procedures required - men?
- Somalia ranks 29th 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: Procedures required - Men (number). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The number of procedures for men records all the procedures required in practice for five male married entrepreneurs to start and operate a local limited liability company. A procedure is de?ned as any interaction of the company founders with external parties. Both pre- and post-incorporation procedures that are officially required or commonly done in practice are recorded.