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Time required to deal with construction permits (days) by country

The total number of days required to build a warehouse. The measure captures the median duration that local experts indicate is necessary to complete a procedure in practice.

Countries reporting
49
Highest
614 days
Zimbabwe
Lowest
75 days
Liberia
Median
164 days
Years covered
8
2005–2012
Data points
447

What the numbers show

Time required to deal with construction permits (days) is currently reported for 49 countries. The highest value is 614 days in Zimbabwe; the lowest is 75 days in Liberia.

The median across all reporting countries is 164 days, and the mean is 194.02 days.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 8.

Over the past decade 6 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 84.4%), and the largest decrease in Liberia (down 82.3%).

Time required to deal with construction permits: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Zimbabwe 614 days 2012 up 84.4% rising
2 Cote d'Ivoire 475 days 2012 down 11.0% falling
3 Mozambique 377 days 2012 unchanged flat
4 Angola 348 days 2012 up 8.4% flat
5 Lesotho 330 days 2012 down 21.2% falling
6 Niger 326 days 2012 down 2.7% flat
7 Togo 309 days 2012 unchanged flat
8 Benin 282 days 2012 down 26.6% falling
9 Algeria 281 days 2012 unchanged flat
10 Sudan 270 days 2012 unchanged flat
11 Gabon 243 days 2012 unchanged flat
12 Sierra Leone 238 days 2012 up 1.3% flat
13 Egypt 218 days 2012 down 12.4% falling
13 Ghana 218 days 2012 unchanged flat
15 Senegal 210 days 2012 down 4.5% falling
16 Tanzania 206 days 2012 up 10.8% rising
17 Central African Republic 203 days 2012 unchanged flat
18 Congo 201 days 2012 unchanged flat
19 Malawi 200 days 2012 unchanged flat
20 Guinea 197 days 2012 unchanged flat
21 Zambia 196 days 2012 down 12.9% falling
22 Mali 179 days 2012 down 36.1% falling
23 Madagascar 172 days 2012 down 40.5% falling
25 Equatorial Guinea 166 days 2012 unchanged flat
26 Rwanda 164 days 2012 down 46.6% falling
27 Guinea-Bissau 163 days 2012 unchanged flat
28 Chad 154 days 2012 unchanged flat
29 Cameroon 147 days 2012 down 12.5% falling
30 Botswana 145 days 2012 up 26.1% rising
31 Mauritius 143 days 2012 down 22.7% falling
31 Comoros 143 days 2012 unchanged flat
31 Gambia 143 days 2012 up 31.2% rising
34 Namibia 139 days 2012 down 7.9% falling
35 Ethiopia 128 days 2012 unchanged flat
36 South Africa 127 days 2012 unchanged flat
37 Seychelles 126 days 2012 unchanged flat
38 Uganda 125 days 2012 down 3.1% flat
38 Kenya 125 days 2012 down 23.3% falling
40 Cape Verde 122 days 2012 unchanged flat
41 Sao Tome and Principe 118 days 2012 down 53.7% falling
42 Democratic Republic of Congo 117 days 2012 down 53.9% falling
43 Burundi 99 days 2012 down 26.7% falling
44 Burkina Faso 98 days 2012 down 52.7% falling
45 Morocco 97 days 2012 down 14.9% falling
46 Eswatini 95 days 2012 unchanged flat
47 Tunisia 88 days 2012 down 2.2% flat
48 Nigeria 85 days 2012 down 71.9% falling
49 Mauritania 82 days 2012 down 49.4% falling
50 Liberia 75 days 2012 down 82.3% volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Time required to deal with construction permits (days)
Unit
days
Source
World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
56 places, 447 data points, 2005–2012
Last refreshed

The total number of days required to build a warehouse. The measure captures the median duration that local experts indicate is necessary to complete a procedure in practice.