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Environmental Governance and Institutions — Government Regulation: Cost to start a new business Units: Percent (%) GNI per capita

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	ISO	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Country
Afghanistan	AFG	..	..	75.2	67.4	84.6
Albania	ALB	56.9	32.2	31.1	22.4	20.9
Algeria	DZA	16.3	14.6	12.4	13.4	13.2
Angola	AGO	1,316.40	910.0	653.8	498.2	343.7
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	..	..	..	12.5	11.8
Argentina	ARG	12.4	14.7	12.5	11.6	9.7
Armenia	ARM	8.4	7.0	6.1	5.1	4.8
Australia	AUS	2.0	2.1	1.9	1.8	0.8
Austria	AUT	6.1	6.0	5.7	5.6	5.4
Azerbaijan	AZE	16.8	14.4	12.3	9.3	6.9
Bangladesh	BGD	63.9	62.9	56.1	52.1	46.2
Belarus	BLR	18.6	25.3	31.9	26.1	8.8
Belgium	BEL	11.1	11.3	11.1	5.8	5.3
Belize	BLZ	..	..	..	57.5	53.1
Benin	BEN	145.9	171.5	166.2	208.7	195.0
Bhutan	BTN	..	20.7	19.9	16.6	10.4
Bolivia	BOL	184.4	182.3	162.2	150.1	134.1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	47.3	45.3	40.1	36.3	30.1
Botswana	BWA	11.6	11.3	10.9	10.6	9.9
Brazil	BRA	13.1	11.7	10.1	9.9	10.4
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	..	..	..	..	9.0
Bulgaria	BGR	10.4	10.3	9.6	7.9	8.4
Burkina Faso	BFA	147.0	152.7	149.9	120.8	82.1
Burundi	BDI	203.8	191.5	200.7	222.4	251.0
Cambodia	KHM	534.8	480.1	276.1	236.4	190.3
Cameroon	CMR	175.6	166.2	157.4	136.5	129.2
Canada	CAN	0.6	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9
Cape Verde	CPV	..	..	..	45.6	40.1
Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	139.5	133.6	134.9	134.1	135.8
Central African Rep	CAF	192.9	204.5	211.6	209.3	205.4
Chad	TCD	359.5	356.5	348.5	226.1	188.8
Chile	CHL	12.1	10.0	10.3	9.8	8.6
China	CHN	17.8	15.9	13.6	9.3	8.4
Colombia	COL	28.7	26.3	25.3	19.8	19.3
Comoros	COM	..	..	..	192.3	188.4
Congo	COG	168.9	172.3	158.1	139.9	150.1
Congo, Dem Rep	COD	763.0	556.8	503.3	481.1	487.2
Costa Rica	CRI	21.4	21.2	19.9	23.0	21.3
Croatia	HRV	16.9	14.4	13.4	12.2	11.7
Czech Rep	CZE	10.0	10.8	9.5	8.9	10.6
Denmark	DNK	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Djibouti	DJI	..	..	..	222.0	206.6
Dominica	DMA	..	..	..	30.0	27.1
Dominican Rep	DOM	28.3	25.4	30.8	30.2	31.1
Ecuador	ECU	51.6	47.4	38.1	31.8	29.2
Egypt	EGY	65.6	63.0	104.9	68.8	28.6
El Salvador	SLV	127.4	128.0	118.0	75.6	73.1
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	..	..	..	100.7	105.1
Eritrea	ERI	..	..	130.4	115.9	125.8
Estonia	EST	..	7.5	6.2	5.1	2.0
Ethiopia	ETH	483.9	77.4	65.1	45.9	41.3
Fiji	FJI	..	28.9	28.4	25.8	25.3
Finland	FIN	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.0
France	FRA	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.1	1.1
Gabon	GAB	..	..	..	161.8	164.0
Gambia	GMB	..	..	..	292.1	279.0
Georgia	GEO	22.9	13.7	13.7	10.9	9.5
Germany	DEU	5.9	5.9	4.7	5.1	5.7
Ghana	GHA	84.7	65.1	58.6	49.6	41.4
Greece	GRC	36.7	35.2	24.6	24.2	23.3
Grenada	GRD	..	..	..	37.3	31.7
Guatemala	GTM	65.6	62.8	58.4	52.1	47.3
Guinea	GIN	232.7	208.2	178.8	181.5	138.3
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	..	..	..	261.2	255.5
Guyana	GUY	..	..	101.4	100.2	87.2
Haiti	HTI	200.9	176.1	153.1	127.7	133.9
Honduras	HND	77.0	72.9	65.6	60.6	59.9
Hong Kong	HKG	2.4	3.4	3.4	3.3	3.1
Hungary	HUN	40.4	22.9	22.4	20.9	17.7
Iceland	ISL	..	..	2.8	3.0	2.7
India	IND	53.4	49.5	62.0	78.4	74.6
Indonesia	IDN	136.7	130.7	101.7	86.7	80.0
Iran, Islamic Rep	IRN	6.5	7.3	6.3	5.4	5.3
Iraq	IRQ	..	..	43.4	65.9	93.5
Ireland	IRL	10.4	10.3	5.3	0.3	0.3
Israel	ISR	5.5	5.5	5.3	5.1	4.4
Italy	ITA	16.8	16.2	15.7	20.0	18.7
Jamaica	JAM	16.3	15.4	11.8	9.4	8.7
Japan	JPN	10.7	10.6	10.7	7.5	7.5
Jordan	JOR	104.1	102.1	85.5	73.0	66.2
Kazakhstan	KAZ	11.1	10.5	8.6	7.0	7.6
Kenya	KEN	51.7	53.4	48.2	46.3	46.1
Kiribati	KIR	..	64.1	71.0	50.0	56.6
Korea, Rep	KOR	17.8	17.7	17.7	17.7	16.9
Kuwait	KWT	2.0	2.4	2.2	1.6	1.6
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	10.9	11.6	10.4	9.8	8.8
Lao People's Dem Rep	LAO	20.7	18.5	15.1	17.3	16.5
Latvia	LVA	10.1	9.3	4.2	3.5	3.0
Lebanon	LBN	129.7	129.1	108.4	90.9	94.1
Lesotho	LSO	64.1	59.6	41.7	39.9	37.4
Liberia	LBR	..	..	..	..	493.3
Lithuania	LTU	4.0	3.7	3.3	2.8	3.0
Luxembourg	LUX	..	..	..	..	2.3
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	12.1	11.6	11.3	7.4	6.6
Madagascar	MDG	59.0	56.7	51.2	35.0	22.7
Malawi	MWI	116.2	140.8	139.6	215.7	188.7
Malaysia	MYS	25.9	25.1	20.9	19.7	18.1
Maldives	MDV	..	12.3	11.5	14.0	13.4
Mali	MLI	204.3	187.4	190.7	201.9	132.1
Marshall Islands	MHL	..	21.3	22.4	18.1	17.7
Mauritania	MRT	141.4	140.8	143.6	121.6	56.2
Mauritius	MUS	..	..	8.8	8.0	5.3
Mexico	MEX	17.6	16.7	15.6	14.2	13.3
Micronesia, Fed States	FSM	..	134.1	133.6	135.9	137.0
Moldova, Rep	MDA	24.5	18.6	14.6	13.3	11.5
Mongolia	MNG	11.9	8.1	6.2	5.1	4.3
Montenegro	MNE	..	..	..	6.7	6.2
Morocco	MAR	26.6	13.7	13.4	12.7	11.5
Mozambique	MOZ	112.1	93.4	94.7	85.7	21.6
Namibia	NAM	22.2	19.3	18.8	18.0	22.3
Nepal	NPL	78.0	74.1	69.9	78.5	73.9
Netherlands	NLD	13.3	13.2	13.0	7.2	6.0
New Zealand	NZL	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
Nicaragua	NIC	161.4	144.9	143.8	131.6	119.1
Niger	NER	450.9	444.8	465.4	416.8	174.8
Nigeria	NGA	89.6	95.6	73.8	54.4	56.6
Norway	NOR	3.5	2.9	2.7	2.5	2.3
Oman	OMN	4.9	4.9	4.8	4.5	4.3
Pakistan	PAK	40.0	29.3	23.9	21.3	14.0
Palau	PLW	..	4.9	4.7	4.9	4.7
Palestinian Territories		..	..	243.5	324.7	280.4
Panama	PAN	25.8	25.1	24.8	23.9	22.0
Papua New Guinea	PNG	31.4	30.7	30.2	28.2	26.4
Paraguay	PRY	209.9	157.6	147.8	136.8	77.6
Peru	PER	39.4	36.4	38.0	32.5	29.9
Philippines	PHL	24.5	20.4	21.1	19.4	26.8
Poland	POL	21.2	20.6	22.2	21.4	21.2
Portugal	PRT	12.0	13.5	13.4	4.3	3.4
Puerto Rico	PRI	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.8
Romania	ROU	10.9	7.4	5.3	4.4	4.7
Russian Federation	RUS	12.0	9.6	7.3	3.9	3.7
Rwanda	RWA	235.3	223.6	200.1	188.3	171.5
Saint Kitts and Nevis	KNA	..	..	..	26.7	22.9
Samoa	WSM	..	48.7	46.4	45.5	41.3
Sao Tome & Principe	STP	..	..	153.0	147.2	94.5
Saudi Arabia	SAU	67.2	67.3	68.5	58.6	32.3
Senegal	SEN	122.4	112.9	108.7	112.6	107.0
Serbia	SRB	15.9	15.0	12.0	10.2	8.9
Seychelles	SYC	..	..	..	9.1	8.7
Sierra Leone	SLE	1,291.30	1,268.40	835.4	1,194.50	1,075.20
Singapore	SGP	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.8
Slovakia	SVK	9.4	5.7	5.1	4.8	4.2
Slovenia	SVN	14.8	13.5	12.0	9.4	8.5
Solomon Islands	SLB	..	79.8	80.6	68.9	58.9
South Africa	ZAF	9.4	9.7	8.6	6.9	7.1
Spain	ESP	16.8	17.0	16.5	16.2	15.1
Sri Lanka	LKA	12.3	10.7	10.4	9.2	8.5
St. Lucia	LCA	..	..	..	25.9	23.7
St. Vincent & Grenadines	VCT	..	..	..	33.8	29.2
Sudan	SDN	..	..	68.1	58.6	57.9
Suriname	SUR	..	..	..	153.8	141.8
Swaziland	SWZ	..	..	..	41.1	38.7
Sweden	SWE	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6
Switzerland	CHE	8.6	8.6	8.7	2.2	2.1
Syrian Arab Rep	SYR	34.5	34.2	34.5	21.1	55.7
Taiwan	TWN	6.3	6.3	5.0	4.6	4.1
Tajikistan	TJK	..	..	..	75.1	39.6
Tanzania	TZA	200.3	186.9	161.3	91.6	47.1
Thailand	THA	6.6	6.7	6.1	5.8	5.6
Timor-Leste	TMP	..	..	125.4	83.3	11.9
Togo	TGO	237.4	229.4	218.3	252.7	245.7
Tonga	TON	..	13.6	11.7	10.3	10.8
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	..	..	..	1.1	0.9
Tunisia	TUN	11.9	11.1	10.0	9.3	8.3
Turkey	TUR	36.8	26.0	27.4	26.5	20.7
Uganda	UGA	123.2	110.5	99.2	96.0	92.0
Ukraine	UKR	25.6	17.6	10.6	9.2	7.8
United Arab Emirates	ARE	49.2	47.0	47.0	39.7	36.9
United Kingdom	GBR	1.0	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.8
United States	USA	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.7
Uruguay	URY	51.3	48.2	43.9	44.2	46.0
Uzbekistan	UZB	17.2	15.4	14.1	14.1	14.2
Vanuatu	VUT	..	64.3	65.6	61.3	54.9
Venezuela	VEN	43.9	37.9	27.8	25.4	28.2
Viet Nam	VNM	31.9	30.6	27.6	24.3	20.0
Yemen	YEM	257.0	269.3	240.2	228.0	178.8
Zambia	ZMB	33.2	31.7	30.3	29.9	30.5
Zimbabwe	ZWE	500.5	304.7	20.2	35.6	21.3

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Source

The World Bank Group. 2007. Doing Business Custom Datasets. Washington, DC: The World Bank. Available online at http://www.doingbusiness.org/CustomQuery/.