Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Economy > Companies > Ease of doing business index > 1=most business-friendly regulations

DEFINITION: Ease of doing business index (1=most business-friendly regulations). Ease of doing business ranks economies from 1 to 189, with first place being the best. A high ranking (a low numerical rank) means that the regulatory environment is conducive to business operation. The index averages the country's percentile rankings on 10 topics covered in the World Bank's Doing Business. The ranking on each topic is the simple average of the percentile rankings on its component indicators.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Chad	189	2013
2	Central African Republic	188	2013
3	South Sudan	186	2013
4	Republic of the Congo	185	2013
5	Eritrea	184	2013
6	Democratic Republic of the Congo	183	2013
7	Guinea-Bissau	180	2013
8	Angola	179	2013
9	Senegal	178	2013
10	Niger	176	2013
11	Guinea	175	2013
12	Benin	174	2013
13	Mauritania	173	2013
14	Malawi	171	2013
15	Zimbabwe	170	2013
16	Sao Tome and Principe	169	2013
17	Cameroon	168	2013
18	Cote d'Ivoire	167	2013
19	Equatorial Guinea	166	2013
20	Gabon	163	2013
21	Djibouti	160	2013
22	Comoros	158	2013
23	Togo	157	2013
24	Mali	155	2013
25	Burkina Faso	154	2013
26	The Gambia	150	2013
27	Sudan	149	2013
28	Madagascar	148	2013
29	Nigeria	147	2013
30	Tanzania	145	2013
31	Liberia	144	2013
32	Sierra Leone	142	2013
33	Burundi	140	2013
34	Mozambique	139	2013
35	Lesotho	136	2013
36	Uganda	132	2013
37	Kenya	129	2013
38	Ethiopia	125	2013
39	Swaziland	123	2013
40	Cape Verde	121	2013
41	Namibia	98	2013
42	Zambia	83	2013
43	Seychelles	80	2013
44	Ghana	67	2013
45	Botswana	56	2013
46	South Africa	41	2013
47	Rwanda	32	2013
48	Mauritius	20	2013

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