Firms formally registered when operations started (% of firms)
Compare firms formally registered when operations started (% of firms) across 61 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 World Bank reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •61 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite % observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Lithuania has the highest published value (99.1972 %).
- •Malawi has the lowest published value (47.3074 %).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 82.0%)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
Percentage of firms formally registered when they started operations in the country.
MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 World Bank slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.
Methodology
Percentage of firms formally registered when they started operations in the country.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lithuania | 99.2% |
| 2 | Poland | 97.8% |
| 3 | Germany | 97.2% |
| 4 | Austria | 96.8% |
| 5 | France | 96.7% |
| 6 | Kuwait | 95.9% |
| 7 | Qatar | 95.1% |
| 8 | Chile | 95.0% |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 95.0% |
| 10 | Czech Republic | 94.6% |
| 11 | Finland | 93.0% |
| 12 | Brunei Darussalam | 91.7% |
| 13 | Netherlands | 91.4% |
| 14 | Brazil | 91.3% |
| 15 | Egypt | 90.9% |
| 16 | Denmark | 90.0% |
| 17 | Djibouti | 90.0% |
| 18 | Belgium | 89.9% |
| 19 | Maldives | 89.3% |
| 20 | Ethiopia | 89.1% |
| 21 | Solomon Islands | 88.6% |
| 22 | Norway | 88.2% |
| 23 | Thailand | 88.2% |
| 24 | India | 88.0% |
| 25 | Australia | 88.0% |
| 26 | Kenya | 88.0% |
| 27 | Guatemala | 87.5% |
| 28 | Switzerland | 87.2% |
| 29 | Trinidad and Tobago | 86.8% |
| 30 | Panama | 86.6% |
| 31 | Mongolia | 85.2% |
| 32 | Zambia | 84.4% |
| 33 | Kiribati | 83.1% |
| 34 | Fiji | 82.5% |
| 35 | Grenada | 81.1% |
| 36 | Afghanistan | 80.1% |
| 37 | Antigua and Barbuda | 78.7% |
| 38 | Comoros | 78.6% |
| 39 | Sri Lanka | 78.4% |
| 40 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 78.0% |
| 41 | Guinea-Bissau | 77.3% |
| 42 | Bolivia | 76.0% |
| 43 | Niger | 75.7% |
| 44 | Somalia | 75.3% |
| 45 | Burundi | 75.0% |
| 46 | Mozambique | 74.7% |
| 47 | Suriname | 74.6% |
| 48 | Belize | 74.5% |
| 49 | Albania | 73.5% |
| 50 | Liberia | 72.3% |
| 51 | Zimbabwe | 70.7% |
| 52 | Japan | 70.4% |
| 53 | Sao Tome and Principe | 69.4% |
| 54 | Guinea | 68.8% |
| 55 | Gabon | 68.6% |
| 56 | Saint Lucia | 67.1% |
| 57 | Uganda | 61.7% |
| 58 | Mauritania | 59.8% |
| 59 | Dominican Republic | 57.2% |
| 60 | Nigeria | 55.4% |
| 61 | Malawi | 47.3% |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).
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