Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in Senegal
Senegal: Starting a business: Procedures required - Women was 4 number in 2019. ▼ Falling
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in Senegal, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in number.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: procedures required - women in Senegal is 4 number, measured in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.
The figure is down 20.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: procedures required - women in Senegal peaked at 11 number in 2003 and was at its lowest, 4 number, in 2011.
That places Senegal 144th out of 190 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 9.29 number | 5 number | 11 number | 7 |
| 2010s | 4.1 number | 4 number | 5 number | 10 |
Countries ranked near Senegal
- 143 China (People’s Republic of) 4.55 number compare
- 144 Russian Federation 4 number compare
- 144 Belarus 4 number compare
- 144 Brunei Darussalam 4 number compare
- 144 Burundi 4 number compare
- 144 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 4 number compare
- 144 Côte d'Ivoire 4 number compare
- 144 Kazakhstan 4 number compare
- 144 Kyrgyzstan 4 number compare
- 144 Latvia 4 number compare
- 144 Lithuania 4 number compare
- 144 Mauritania 4 number compare
- 144 Mauritius 4 number compare
- 144 Morocco 4 number compare
- 144 Netherlands 4 number compare
- 144 Niger 4 number compare
- 144 Norway 4 number compare
- 144 Samoa 4 number compare
- 144 Saudi Arabia 4 number compare
- 144 Sweden 4 number compare
- 144 Tonga 4 number compare
- 144 United Kingdom 4 number compare
More private sector data for Senegal
- Merchandise trade 60.0% (2025)
- Food imports 19.0% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 46.4% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 11.95 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 21.6% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 22.3% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 10.24 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 541.04 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.2768 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 62.33 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: procedures required - women in Senegal?
- Starting a business: procedures required - women in Senegal was 4 number in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - women recorded in Senegal?
- The highest recorded value was 11 number in 2003.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - women recorded in Senegal?
- The lowest recorded value was 4 number in 2011.
- How does Senegal rank for starting a business: procedures required - women?
- Senegal ranks 144th out of 190 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: procedures required - women rising or falling in Senegal?
- Over the last ten years it is down 20.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Senegal 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.