Starting a business - Score in Madagascar
Madagascar: Starting a business - Score was 88.46 in 2019. ▲ Rising
Starting a business - Score in Madagascar, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Madagascar recorded 88.46 for starting a business - score in 2019. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 32.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business - score in Madagascar peaked at 88.46 in 2019 and was at its lowest, 12.7, in 2003.
Madagascar ranks 81st of 191 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Starting a business - Score in Madagascar, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 12.7 | — |
| 2004 | 20.67 | +62.7% |
| 2005 | 26.51 | +28.3% |
| 2006 | 46.89 | +76.9% |
| 2007 | 55.6 | +18.6% |
| 2008 | 59.41 | +6.9% |
| 2009 | 66.6 | +12.1% |
| 2010 | 63.05 | -5.3% |
| 2011 | 79.17 | +25.6% |
| 2012 | 79.42 | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 79.48 | +0.1% |
| 2014 | 79.75 | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 78.16 | -2.0% |
| 2016 | 81.76 | +4.6% |
| 2017 | 87.78 | +7.4% |
| 2018 | 88.1 | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 88.46 | +0.4% |
Madagascar compared with similar countries
- Madagascar's 88.46 is above the median for low income countries, which is 79.03, 1.1× the median. (24 countries reporting)
- Madagascar's 88.46 is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 83.5, 1.1× the median. (48 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Starting a business - Score in Madagascar changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | +76.9% | 26.51 | 46.89 |
| 2004 | +62.7% | 12.7 | 20.67 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 41.2 | 12.7 | 66.6 | 7 |
| 2010s | 80.51 | 63.05 | 88.46 | 10 |
Countries ranked near Madagascar
- 78 Turkey 88.79 compare
- 79 North Macedonia 88.62 compare
- 80 Trinidad and Tobago 88.58 compare
- 82 Switzerland 88.44 compare
- 83 Kuwait 88.4 compare
- 84 Marshall Islands 88.36 compare
More private sector data for Madagascar
- Merchandise trade 39.4% (2025)
- Food imports 18.4% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 58.9% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 5.24 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 30.5% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 32.3% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 2.50 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 76.3 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1273 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -3.25 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business - score in Madagascar?
- Starting a business - score in Madagascar was 88.46 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business - score recorded in Madagascar?
- The highest recorded value was 88.46 in 2019.
- What is the lowest starting a business - score recorded in Madagascar?
- The lowest recorded value was 12.7 in 2003.
- How does Madagascar rank for starting a business - score?
- Madagascar ranks 81st out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business - score rising or falling in Madagascar?
- Over the last ten years it is up 32.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Madagascar data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Starting a business - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The score for starting a business is the simple average of the scores for each of the component indicators: the procedures, time and cost for an entrepreneur to start and formally operate a business, as well as the paid-in minimum capital requirement.