Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score was 52.94 in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Zimbabwe, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Zimbabwe recorded 52.94 for starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
The figure is up 12.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Zimbabwe peaked at 52.94 in 2017 and was at its lowest, 47.06, in 2003.
That places Zimbabwe 145th 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: Procedures required - Women (number) - Score in Zimbabwe, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 47.06 | — |
| 2004 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 47.06 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 52.94 | +12.5% |
| 2018 | 52.94 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 52.94 | +0.0% |
Zimbabwe compared with similar countries
- Zimbabwe's 52.94 is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 64.71, 82% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Zimbabwe's 52.94 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 64.71, 82% of the median. (48 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 47.06 | 47.06 | 47.06 | 7 |
| 2010s | 48.82 | 47.06 | 52.94 | 10 |
Countries ranked near Zimbabwe
- 145 Bangladesh 52.94 compare
- 145 Antigua and Barbuda 52.94 compare
- 145 Belize 52.94 compare
- 145 Botswana 52.94 compare
- 145 Cape Verde 52.94 compare
- 145 Cambodia 52.94 compare
- 145 Comoros 52.94 compare
- 145 Czechia 52.94 compare
- 145 El Salvador 52.94 compare
- 145 Germany 52.94 compare
- 145 Guinea-Bissau 52.94 compare
- 145 Iraq 52.94 compare
- 145 Laos 52.94 compare
- 145 Malaysia 52.94 compare
- 145 Qatar 52.94 compare
- 145 Seychelles 52.94 compare
- 145 Somalia 52.94 compare
More private sector data for Zimbabwe
- Merchandise trade 38.7% (2025)
- Food imports 19.0% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 58.3% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 10.11 billion current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service imports 1.59 billion current US$ (2024)
- Food exports 21.6% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 6.7% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 9.71 billion current US$ (2025)
- Commercial service exports 438.49 million current US$ (2024)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 572.66 current US$ per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Zimbabwe?
- Starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score in Zimbabwe was 52.94 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 52.94 in 2017.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 47.06 in 2003.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score?
- Zimbabwe ranks 145th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: procedures required - women (number) - score rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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.