Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Ghana
Ghana: Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score was 58.82 in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Ghana, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
In 2019, starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Ghana stood at 58.82.
That represents a change of down 9.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Ghana peaked at 64.71 in 2009 and was at its lowest, 41.18, in 2003.
That places Ghana 129th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Ghana, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 41.18 | — |
| 2004 | 41.18 | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 41.18 | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 41.18 | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 47.06 | +14.3% |
| 2008 | 58.82 | +25.0% |
| 2009 | 64.71 | +10.0% |
| 2010 | 64.71 | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 64.71 | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 64.71 | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 58.82 | -9.1% |
| 2014 | 58.82 | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 58.82 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 58.82 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 58.82 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 58.82 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 58.82 | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 47.9 | 41.18 | 64.71 | 7 |
| 2010s | 60.59 | 58.82 | 64.71 | 10 |
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- 128 Mexico 59.82 compare
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- 129 Palau 58.82 compare
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- 129 Suriname 58.82 compare
- 129 Syrian Arab Republic 58.82 compare
- 129 Viet Nam 58.82 compare
More private sector data for Ghana
- Merchandise trade 42.5% (2025)
- Food imports 13.7% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 51.5% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 17.45 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 18.1% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 6.0% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 31.11 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 887.14 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.2724 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 62.31 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Ghana?
- Starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Ghana was 58.82 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score recorded in Ghana?
- The highest recorded value was 64.71 in 2009.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score recorded in Ghana?
- The lowest recorded value was 41.18 in 2003.
- How does Ghana rank for starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score?
- Ghana ranks 129th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score rising or falling in Ghana?
- Over the last ten years it is down 9.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ghana data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (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 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.