Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates: Starting a business: Procedures required - Women was 3 number in 2019. ▼ Falling
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in United Arab Emirates, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in number.
Analysis
In 2019, starting a business: procedures required - women in United Arab Emirates stood at 3 number. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of down 66.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: procedures required - women in United Arab Emirates peaked at 11 number in 2003 and was at its lowest, 3 number, in 2018.
United Arab Emirates ranks 166th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 17 years of available data.
Starting a business: Procedures required - Women in United Arab Emirates, year by year
| Year | number | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 11 number | — |
| 2004 | 11 number | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 11 number | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 11 number | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 10 number | -9.1% |
| 2008 | 10 number | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 9 number | -10.0% |
| 2010 | 9 number | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 8 number | -11.1% |
| 2012 | 7 number | -12.5% |
| 2013 | 7 number | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 7 number | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 7 number | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 5 number | -28.6% |
| 2017 | 5 number | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 3 number | -40.0% |
| 2019 | 3 number | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 10.43 number | 9 number | 11 number | 7 |
| 2010s | 6.1 number | 3 number | 9 number | 10 |
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More private sector data for United Arab Emirates
- Merchandise trade 208.2% (2024)
- Food imports 5.0% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 54.9% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 618.88 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 2.9% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 8.8% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 706.67 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 61,380 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 1.1 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 16.69 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: procedures required - women in United Arab Emirates?
- Starting a business: procedures required - women in United Arab Emirates was 3 number in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: procedures required - women recorded in United Arab Emirates?
- The highest recorded value was 11 number in 2003.
- What is the lowest starting a business: procedures required - women recorded in United Arab Emirates?
- The lowest recorded value was 3 number in 2018.
- How does United Arab Emirates rank for starting a business: procedures required - women?
- United Arab Emirates ranks 166th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: procedures required - women rising or falling in United Arab Emirates?
- Over the last ten years it is down 66.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this United Arab Emirates 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.