Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in Maldives
Maldives: Starting a business: Procedures required - Women was 6 number in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in Maldives, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in number.
Analysis
Maldives recorded 6 number for starting a business: procedures required - women in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
The figure is unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: procedures required - women in Maldives peaked at 6 number in 2009 and was at its lowest, 5 number, in 2003.
That places Maldives 96th out of 190 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.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5.14 number | 5 number | 6 number | 7 |
| 2010s | 6 number | 6 number | 6 number | 10 |
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- 96 Timor-Leste 6 number compare
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More private sector data for Maldives
- Merchandise trade 52.5% (2025)
- Food imports 21.2% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 53.7% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 3.62 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 94.4% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 1.2% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 444.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 838.25 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0574 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 15.93 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: procedures required - women in Maldives?
- Starting a business: procedures required - women in Maldives was 6 number in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - women recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 6 number in 2009.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - women recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 5 number in 2003.
- How does Maldives rank for starting a business: procedures required - women?
- Maldives ranks 96th out of 190 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: procedures required - women rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Maldives 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.