Entrepreneurship and Business Statistics

The GEDI Institute has gathered and provided entrepreneurship and business statistics on a country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem through Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI).

Enterprise is a crucial engine of economic growth. Without enterprise and entrepreneurs, there would be little innovation, little productivity growth, and few new jobs.

Entrepreneurial success does not take place in a vacuum. Entrepreneurs exist in the context of their particular geography – be that their local, national, or even supranational economy and society.

This mix of attitudes, resources, and infrastructure is known as the entrepreneurship ‘ecosystem’. The GEI is an annual index that measures the health of entrepreneurship ecosystems in 137 countries. It then ranks the performance of these against each other. This provides a picture of how each country performs in both the domestic and international context.

The GEDI methodology collects data on the entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and aspirations of the local population and then weights these against the prevailing social and economic ‘infrastructure’ – this includes aspects such as broadband connectivity and the transport links to external markets. This process creates 14 ‘pillars’ which GEDI uses to measure the health of the regional ecosystem.

2018 Global Entrepreneurship Index rankings

Rank	Country	GDP World Bank intenational$ 2011	GEI
1	United States	52676	83.6
2	Switzerland	54933	80.4
3	Canada	42104	79.2
4	United Kingdom	37451	77.8
5	Australia	42149	75.5
6	Denmark	44005	74.3
7	Iceland	34541	74.2
8	Ireland	42012	73.7
9	Sweden	45533	73.1
10	France	37948	68.5
11	Netherlands	46241	68.1
12	Finland	38509	67.9
13	Hong Kong	53959	67.3
14	Austria	43574	66
15	Germany	44565	65.9
16	Israel	31092	65.4
17	Belgium	41412	63.7
18	Taiwan	0	59.5
19	Chile	21302	58.5
20	Luxembourg	63404	58.2
21	Norway	65457	56.6
22	Qatar	128734	55
23	Estonia	25977	54.8
24	Korea	33891	54.2
25	Slovenia	28110	53.8
26	United Arab Emirates	64604	53.5
27	Singapore	76628	52.7
28	Japan	35653	51.5
29	Lithuania	24578	51.1
30	Poland	23165	50.4
31	Portugal	25817	48.8
32	Cyprus	28633	48
33	Oman	35236	46.9
34	Spain	31620	45.3
35	Bahrain	36782	45.1
36	Slovakia	25629	44.9
37	Turkey	18651	44.5
38	Czech Republic	26387	43.4
39	Kuwait	76074	42.8
40	Tunisia	10229	42.4
41	Puerto Rico	27145	42.1
42	Italy	33326	41.4
43	China	12559	41.1
44	Latvia	21858	40.5
45	Saudi Arabia	49645	40.2
46	Romania	18719	38.2
47	Colombia	12333	38.2
48	Greece	24273	37.1
49	Jordan	11367	36.5
50	Hungary	22684	36.4
51	Uruguay	19279	35
52	Botswana	15286	34.9
53	Brunei Darussalam	0	34.3
54	Croatia	19359	34
55	Barbados	14926	33.6
56	Costa Rica	13596	33.3
57	South Africa	12125	32.9
58	Malaysia	23644	32.7
59	Lebanon	16777	31.5
60	Montenegro	14739	31.2
61	Namibia	9350	31.1
62	Azerbaijan	16433	30.5
63	Belize	7342	30
64	Kazakhstan	21089	29.7
65	Morocco	6958	29.2
66	Macedonia	11966	29.1
67	Peru	10942	28.4
68	India	5372	28.4
69	Bulgaria	16022	27.8
70	Panama	16585	27.7
71	Thailand	14185	27.4
72	Iran	16063	26.8
73	Ukraine	8178	26.8
74	Serbia	12190	26.4
75	Mexico	15838	26.4
76	Egypt	9807	25.9
77	Georgia	8658	25.8
78	Russia	22452	25.2
79	Gabon	16776	25
80	Algeria	13257	24.7
81	Trinidad & Tobago	26529	24.4
82	Dominican Republic	12038	24.3
83	Albania	10021	24.2
84	Philippines	8057	24.1
85	Argentina	0	24
86	Swaziland	7228	23.8
87	Vietnam	5092	23.2
88	Armenia	8042	22.8
89	Jamaica	8211	22.2
90	Sri Lanka	8022	21.9
91	Rwanda	1556	21.5
92	Moldova	5242	21.2
93	Ghana	3724	21.2
94	Indonesia	9725	21
95	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9810	20.7
96	Ecuador	10678	20.5
97	Bolivia	6012	20.4
98	Brazil	14858	20.3
99	Tajikistan	2446	20
100	Kyrgyz Republic	3044	19.8
101	Nigeria	5443	19.7
102	Zambia	3471	19.6
103	Senegal	2198	19.2
104	Libya	15305	18.9
105	Côte d’Ivoire	2802	18.9
106	Paraguay	8086	18.7
107	Honduras	4378	18.7
108	Guatemala	6913	18.5
109	Kenya	2804	18.4
110	Ethiopia	1427	18.3
111	Suriname	14849	18.1
112	Lao PDR	4824	17.8
113	Cambodia	2924	17.6
114	El Salvador	7636	16.7
115	Tanzania	2395	16.4
116	Guyana	6055	16.4
117	Gambia, The	1553	16.1
118	Mali	1442	15.9
119	Liberia	691	15.7
120	Pakistan	4848	15.6
121	Cameroon	2810	15.4
122	Nicaragua	4572	14.7
123	Angola	6341	14.4
124	Mozambique	1063	14
125	Madagascar	1335	14
126	Venezuela	17152	13.8
127	Myanmar	0	13.6
128	Benin	1924	13.3
129	Burkina Faso	1530	13.2
130	Guinea	1083	12.9
131	Uganda	1641	12.9
132	Sierra Leone	1440	12.3
133	Malawi	753	12.2
134	Bangladesh	3179	11.8
135	Burundi	735	11.8
136	Mauritania	3272	10.9
137	Chad	1814	9

2019 GEI

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