Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Jamaica
Jamaica: Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score was 94.12 in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Jamaica, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Jamaica recorded 94.12 for starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of up 33.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Jamaica peaked at 94.12 in 2014 and was at its lowest, 64.71, in 2003.
That places Jamaica 3rd out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Jamaica, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 64.71 | — |
| 2004 | 64.71 | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 70.59 | +9.1% |
| 2006 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 70.59 | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 76.47 | +8.3% |
| 2014 | 94.12 | +23.1% |
| 2015 | 94.12 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 94.12 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 94.12 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 94.12 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 94.12 | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 68.91 | 64.71 | 70.59 | 7 |
| 2010s | 85.29 | 70.59 | 94.12 | 10 |
Countries ranked near Jamaica
More private sector data for Jamaica
- Merchandise trade 41.3% (2025)
- Food imports 20.5% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 51.4% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 7.68 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 30.4% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 3.0% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 1.69 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 595.33 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0744 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -9.53 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Jamaica?
- Starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Jamaica was 94.12 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 94.12 in 2014.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 64.71 in 2003.
- How does Jamaica rank for starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score?
- Jamaica ranks 3rd out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 33.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Jamaica 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.