Time required to obtain an operating license (days)
Compare time required to obtain an operating license (days) 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 days observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Belgium has the highest published value (134.243 days).
- •Kiribati has the lowest published value (2.68341 days).
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: 29.0days)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
The average wait, in days, to obtain an operating license, from the day of the application to the day it was granted.
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
The average wait, in days, to obtain an operating license, from the day of the application to the day it was granted.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belgium | 134.2days |
| 2 | Netherlands | 114.7days |
| 3 | Suriname | 98.9days |
| 4 | Chile | 84.7days |
| 5 | Guatemala | 73.9days |
| 6 | Niger | 70.0days |
| 7 | Czech Republic | 68.7days |
| 8 | Norway | 61.5days |
| 9 | France | 58.4days |
| 10 | Dominican Republic | 56.1days |
| 11 | Denmark | 54.6days |
| 12 | Mongolia | 52.0days |
| 13 | Gabon | 49.8days |
| 14 | Switzerland | 46.7days |
| 15 | Austria | 39.7days |
| 16 | Brunei Darussalam | 38.2days |
| 17 | Finland | 32.1days |
| 18 | Brazil | 30.9days |
| 19 | Fiji | 30.7days |
| 20 | Saint Lucia | 30.2days |
| 21 | Panama | 28.3days |
| 22 | Japan | 26.5days |
| 23 | Maldives | 24.7days |
| 24 | Germany | 24.0days |
| 25 | Sri Lanka | 23.0days |
| 26 | Australia | 22.6days |
| 27 | Liberia | 22.1days |
| 28 | Qatar | 21.1days |
| 29 | Mozambique | 20.6days |
| 30 | Nigeria | 18.3days |
| 31 | Sao Tome and Principe | 18.3days |
| 32 | Burundi | 18.1days |
| 33 | Trinidad and Tobago | 18.1days |
| 34 | Belize | 16.9days |
| 35 | Thailand | 16.7days |
| 36 | Antigua and Barbuda | 16.4days |
| 37 | Malawi | 16.1days |
| 38 | Zambia | 14.6days |
| 39 | Bolivia | 13.5days |
| 40 | Egypt | 13.3days |
| 41 | Guinea-Bissau | 13.2days |
| 42 | Comoros | 11.9days |
| 43 | India | 11.4days |
| 44 | Solomon Islands | 9.9days |
| 45 | Afghanistan | 9.4days |
| 46 | Lithuania | 8.3days |
| 47 | Kuwait | 8.0days |
| 48 | Guinea | 7.1days |
| 49 | Uganda | 7.1days |
| 50 | Ethiopia | 6.9days |
| 51 | Kenya | 6.6days |
| 52 | Mauritania | 6.6days |
| 53 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 6.6days |
| 54 | Saudi Arabia | 6.3days |
| 55 | Zimbabwe | 6.0days |
| 56 | Somalia | 5.0days |
| 57 | Grenada | 4.5days |
| 58 | Djibouti | 4.5days |
| 59 | Poland | 2.9days |
| 60 | Albania | 2.8days |
| 61 | Kiribati | 2.7days |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).
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