Nigeria: ease of doing business by filed 2020

As of 2020, Nigeria's ease of doing business ranked 131st worldwide, with a general score of 56.9. The highest scores were obtained in the fields of starting a business, dealing with construction permits, and getting credits. On the other hand, Nigeria's performance in other fields was low, for instance in registering properties, trading across borders, and resolving insolvencies.

Ease of doing business in Nigeria as of 2020, by topic

Characteristic	Ranking score
Starting a business	86.2
Getting credit	85
Dealing with construction permits	73.6
Protecting minority investors	72
Enforcing contracts	61.5
Paying taxes	53.7
Getting electricity	47.4
Resolving insolvency	30.6
Registering property	29.5
Trading across borders	29.2

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Release date

April 2021

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Region

Nigeria

Survey time period

2020

Special properties

Lagos and Kano

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The ease of doing business (EODB) score captures the gap between an economy’s performance and is a measure of best practice across the entire sample of 41 indicators for 10 topics. The ranking complements the ease of doing business score by providing information about an economy’s performance in business regulation relative to the performance of other economies as measured by Doing Business. The ranking is out of 190 countries.

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