Starting a business: Time - Women in Somalia
Somalia: Starting a business: Time - Women was 70 days in 2019. ▬ Flat
Starting a business: Time - Women in Somalia, 2015–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in days.
Analysis
The most recent figure for starting a business: time - women in Somalia is 70 days, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over five years.
Somalia ranks 8th of 190 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Countries ranked near Somalia
More private sector data for Somalia
- Merchandise trade 40.2% (2025)
- Food imports 22.4% (1982)
- Manufactures imports 54.7% (1982)
- Merchandise imports 3.93 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 93.7% (1982)
- Manufactures exports 1.3% (1982)
- Merchandise exports 1.30 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 66.14 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -11.74 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is starting a business: time - women in Somalia?
- Starting a business: time - women in Somalia was 70 days in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest starting a business: time - women recorded in Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 70 days in 2015.
- What is the lowest starting a business: time - women recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 70 days in 2015.
- How does Somalia rank for starting a business: time - women?
- Somalia ranks 8th out of 190 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Somalia 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.