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🏭 Firms formally registered when operations started

Percentage of firms formally registered when they started operations in the country.

📅 2025📏 %61 entries
99.2% – 91.4%91.3% – 88.0%88.0% – 78.7%78.6% – 73.5%72.3% – 47.3%No data
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
🇨🇿Czechia
94.6%
11
🇫🇮Finland
93.0%
12
🇧🇳Brunei
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%

Highlights

As of 2025, Lithuania ranks first with 99.2%, followed by Poland (97.8%) and Germany (97.2%).

Across 61 countries and territories, values run from 99.2% (Lithuania) to 47.3% (Malawi), with a median of 85.2%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Europe, 3 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms formally registered when operations started (% of firms), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Firms formally registered when operations started (% of firms) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026