Time required to obtain an operating license

The average wait, in days, to obtain an operating license, from the day of the application to the day it was granted.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
180
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Bank

    Enterprise Surveys, World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/data

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan20259.37days
Albania20252.77days
Antigua and Barbuda202516.37days
Australia202522.62days
Austria202539.73days
Belgium2025134.24days
Belize202516.89days
Bolivia, Plurinational State of202513.53days
Brazil202530.88days
Brunei Darussalam202538.16days

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