Starting a business: Time - Women in El Salvador
El Salvador: Starting a business: Time - Women was 16.5 days in 2019. ◆ Volatile
Starting a business: Time - Women in El Salvador, 2003–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in days.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: time - women in El Salvador is 16.5 days, measured in 2019. That is the lowest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, starting a business: time - women in El Salvador peaked at 115 days in 2003 and was at its lowest, 16.5 days, in 2008.
That places El Salvador 65th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Starting a business: Time - Women in El Salvador, year by year
| Year | days | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 115 days | — |
| 2004 | 115 days | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 40 days | -65.2% |
| 2006 | 36 days | -10.0% |
| 2007 | 19.5 days | -45.8% |
| 2008 | 16.5 days | -15.4% |
| 2009 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 16.5 days | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 51.21 days | 16.5 days | 115 days | 7 |
| 2010s | 16.5 days | 16.5 days | 16.5 days | 10 |
Countries ranked near El Salvador
- 62 Marshall Islands 17 days compare
- 62 Mozambique 17 days compare
- 64 Brazil 16.62 days compare
- 65 Pakistan 16.5 days compare
- 65 Dominican Republic 16.5 days compare
- 65 Luxembourg 16.5 days compare
More private sector data for El Salvador
- Merchandise trade 66.1% (2025)
- Food imports 20.1% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 62.0% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 17.85 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 22.9% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 70.0% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 6.43 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 1,010 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1751 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 1.87 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: time - women in El Salvador?
- Starting a business: time - women in El Salvador was 16.5 days in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: time - women recorded in El Salvador?
- The highest recorded value was 115 days in 2003.
- What is the lowest starting a business: time - women recorded in El Salvador?
- The lowest recorded value was 16.5 days in 2008.
- How does El Salvador rank for starting a business: time - women?
- El Salvador ranks 65th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is starting a business: time - women rising or falling in El Salvador?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this El Salvador data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Starting a business: Time - Women (days). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The time for women captures the median duration that business incorporation experts indicate is necessary for five female married entrepreneurs to complete all procedures required to start and operate a business with minimum follow-up and no extra payments. It is calulared in calendar days. The time estimates of all procedures are added to calculate the total time required to start and operate a business, taking into account simultaneity of processes. It is assumed that the minimum time required for each procedure is one day, except for procedures that can be fully completed online, for which the time required is recorded as half a day.