Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in Barbados
Barbados: Starting a business: Procedures required - Women was 7 number in 2019. ▼ Falling
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in Barbados, 2011–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in number.
Analysis
In 2019, starting a business: procedures required - women in Barbados stood at 7 number. That is the lowest value across all 9 years on record.
The figure is down 12.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: procedures required - women in Barbados peaked at 8 number in 2011 and was at its lowest, 7 number, in 2014.
Barbados ranks 65th of 190 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Countries ranked near Barbados
- 64 Mexico 7.83 number compare
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- 65 Colombia 7 number compare
- 65 Croatia 7 number compare
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- 65 Kiribati 7 number compare
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- 65 Micronesia, Federated States of 7 number compare
- 65 Nicaragua 7 number compare
- 65 Paraguay 7 number compare
- 65 San Marino, Republic of 7 number compare
- 65 Serbia 7 number compare
- 65 Slovak Republic 7 number compare
- 65 Solomon Islands 7 number compare
- 65 South Africa 7 number compare
- 65 Spain 7 number compare
- 65 Sri Lanka 7 number compare
- 65 St. Kitts and Nevis 7 number compare
- 65 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 7 number compare
- 65 Trinidad and Tobago 7 number compare
- 65 Türkiye 7 number compare
- 65 Vanuatu 7 number compare
- 65 Yemen, Republic of 7 number compare
- 65 Zambia 7 number compare
More private sector data for Barbados
- Merchandise trade 33.1% (2025)
- Food imports 22.7% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 52.6% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 2.23 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 43.5% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 39.9% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 428.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 1,514 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0534 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -7.16 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: procedures required - women in Barbados?
- Starting a business: procedures required - women in Barbados was 7 number in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - women recorded in Barbados?
- The highest recorded value was 8 number in 2011.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - women recorded in Barbados?
- The lowest recorded value was 7 number in 2014.
- How does Barbados rank for starting a business: procedures required - women?
- Barbados ranks 65th out of 190 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: procedures required - women rising or falling in Barbados?
- Over the last ten years it is down 12.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Barbados data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Starting a business: Procedures required - Women (number). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The number of procedures for women records all the procedures required in practice for five female 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 or spouses (if legally required). Both pre- and post-incorporation procedures that are officially required or commonly done in practice are recorded.