Doing Business 2020 United States

Ease of Doing Business in DB RANK DB SCORE

Region OECD high income

United States
Income Category High income
6

Population 327,167,434 84.0

City Covered New York City, Los Angeles

Rankings on Doing Business topics - United States

4 2
17
24 25
39 36 39
55
64

Starting Dealing Getting Registering Getting Protecting Paying Trading Enforcing Resolving
a with Electricity Property Credit Minority Taxes across Contracts Insolvency
Business Construction Investors Borders
Permits

Topic Scores

91.6 80.0 82.2 76.9 95.0 71.6 86.8 92.0 73.4 90.5

Starting a Business (rank) 55 Getting Credit (rank) 4 Trading across Borders (rank) 39
Score of starting a business (0-100) 91.6 Score of getting credit (0-100) 95.0 Score of trading across borders (0-100) 92.0
Procedures (number) 6 Strength of legal rights index (0-12) 11 Time to export
Time (days) 4 Depth of credit information index (0-8) 8 Documentary compliance (hours) 2
Cost (number) 1 Credit registry coverage (% of adults) 0.0 Border compliance (hours) 2
Paid-in min. capital (% of income per capita) 0.0 Credit bureau coverage (% of adults) 100.0 Cost to export
Documentary compliance (USD) 60
Dealing with Construction Permits (rank) 24 Protecting Minority Investors (rank) 36 Border compliance (USD) 175
Score of dealing with construction permits (0-100) 80.0 Score of protecting minority investors (0-100) 71.6 Time to export
Procedures (number) 16 Extent of disclosure index (0-10) 7.0 Documentary compliance (hours) 8
Time (days) 81 Extent of director liability index (0-10) 9.0 Border compliance (hours) 2
Cost (% of warehouse value) 0.7 Ease of shareholder suits index (0-10) 9.0 Cost to export
Building quality control index (0-15) 12.4 Extent of shareholder rights index (0-6) 2.0 Documentary compliance (USD) 100
Extent of ownership and control index (0-7) 3.0 Border compliance (USD) 175
Getting Electricity (rank) 64 Extent of corporate transparency index (0-7) 5.0
Score of getting electricity (0-100) 82.2 Enforcing Contracts (rank) 17
Procedures (number) 5 Paying Taxes (rank) 25 Score of enforcing contracts (0-100) 73.4
Time (days) 90 Score of paying taxes (0-100) 86.8 Time (days) 444
Cost (% of income per capita) 21.7 Payments (number per year) 11 Cost (% of claim value) 30.5
Reliability of supply and transparency of tariff index (0-8) 7 Time (hours per year) 175 Quality of judicial processes index (0-18) 14.6
Total tax and contribution rate (% of profit) 36.6
Registering Property (rank) 39 Postfiling index (0-100) 94.0 Resolving Insolvency (rank) 2
Score of registering property (0-100) 76.9 Score of resolving insolvency (0-100) 90.5
Procedures (number) 4 Recovery rate (cents on the dollar) 81.0
Time (days) 15 Time (years) 1.0
Cost (% of property value) 2.4 Cost (% of estate) 10.0
Quality of the land administration index (0-30) 17.6 Outcome (0 as piecemeal sale and 1 as going 1
concern)
Strength of insolvency framework index (0-16) 15.0

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