The Easiest Countries to Start-up a Business (51 to 100)

The ease of doing business index is an index created by the world bank. A high rank indicates simpler, better regulations for businesses and better law enforcement and property rights. The index is calculated based on laws and regulations, with the participation of thousands of government officials and worldwide independant consultants. Many factors are taken into account for defining a rank:

- Procedures, times, cost and capital required to start up a new business
- Dealing with permits in general, construction permits, procedures, time and cost
- Employment issues, ease of recruitment, labor cost and laws
- Registering property: procedures, time and cost
- Ease of getting banking facilities and credits
- Investors protection and law enforcement
- Tax rates
- Import and export facilities


RANKING:

51- Bulgaria
52- Botswana
53- Saint Lucia
54- Azerbaidjan
55- Tunisia
56- Romania
57- Oman
58- Rwanda
59- Kazakhstan
60- Vanuatu
61- Samoa
62- Fiji
63- Czech Republic
64- Antigua and Barbuda
65- Turkey
66- Montenegro 
67- Ghana
68- Belarus
69- Namibia
70- Poland
71- Tonga
72- Panama
73- Mongolia
74- Kuwait
75- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
76- Zambia
77- Bahamas
78- Vietnam
79- China
80- Italy
81- Jamaica
82- Albania
83- Pakistan
84- Croatia
85- Maldives
86- El Salvador
87- Saint Kitts and Nevis
88- Dominica
89- Serbia
90- Moldova 
91- Dominican Republic
92- Grenada
93- Kiribati
94- Egypt
95- Seychelles
96- Solomon Islands
97- Trinidad and Tobago 
98- Kenya
99- Belize
100- Guyana

The Easiest Countries to Start-up a Business (1 to 50)

The ease of doing business index is an index created by the world bank. A high rank indicates simpler, better regulations for businesses and better law enforcement and property rights. The index is calculated based on laws and regulations, with the participation of thousands of government officials and worldwide independent consultants. Many factors are taken into account for defining a rank:

- Procedures, times, cost and capital required to start up a new business
- Dealing with permits in general, construction permits, procedures, time and cost
- Employment issues, ease of recruitment, labor cost and laws
- Registering property: procedures, time and cost
- Ease of getting banking facilities and credits
- Investors protection and law enforcement
- Tax rates
- Import and export facilities


RANKING:

1- Singapore
2- Hong Kong
3- New Zealand
4- United Kingdom
5- United States
6- Denmark
7- Canada
8- Norway
9- Ireland
10- Australia
11- Saudi Arabia
12- Georgia
13- Finland
14- Sweden
15- Iceland
16- South Korea
17- Estonia
18- Japan
19- Thailand
20- Mauritius
21- Malaysia
22- Germany
23- Lithuania
24- Latvia
25- Belgium
26- France
27- Switzerland
28- Bahrain
29- Israel
30- Netherlands
31- Portugal
32- Austria
33- Taiwan
34- South Africa
35- Mexico
36- Peru
37- Cyprus
38- Macedonia
39- Colombia
40- United Arab Emirates
41- Slovakia
42- Slovenia
43- Chile
44- Kyrgyzstan
45- Luxembourg
46- Hungary
47- Puerto Rico
48- Armenia
49- Spain
50- Qatar

US aircraft carriers

The United States Navy possesses 10 operational aircraft carriers as of 2016 and it’s the largest and most powerful fleet in the world by all means. All aircraft carriers are named after important personalities or cities of the US and are chosen by the secretary of the Navy. The names of all ships begin with USS which stands for: "United States Ship". The active carriers are (from the oldest to the latest):

USS Nimitz

1- USS Nimitz

2- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

3- USS Carl Vinson

4- USS Theodore Roosevelt

5- USS Abraham Lincoln

6- USS George Washington

7- USS John C. Stennis

8- USS Harry S. Truman

9- USS Ronald Reagan

10- USS George H.W. bush

The USS Gerald Ford and the USS John F Kennedy are currently conducting sea tests and will be joining the armed forces respectively by the end of 2016 and 2020.

All of the carriers are of the Nimitz class, the largest type of aircraft carriers in the world, having a water displacement above 100,000 tons, with a nuclear propulsion which gives it an unlimited range of action and therefore the ability to navigate for an indefinite period of time, and each one can carry up to 90 aircraft, mainly F-18 Hornet and F-18 Super-hornet and F-14 Tomcat. The new F-35 joint strike fighter jet will start replacing the F-18 starting from 2018.

9 other aircraft carriers have been decommissioned since 1995, the latest being the USS Enterprise, all of them are at dock and awaiting disposal. 

Aircraft carriers give the US military enormous strategical and tactical advantages over any possible opponent, making the US Navy envied by all armies worldwide. An aircraft carrier provides the ability to intervene practically in any area of the world, in a very efficient and decisive way. Each carrier is accompanied by a number of ships called strike group such as guided missile destroyers, frigates, attack submarines, and other ships for logistical support like refueling ships and floating hospitals. Every carrier with its backup and accompanying ships constitute a fleet in itself and has a huge attack/defense capabilities.The ultra modern 90 fighter aircraft embarked on the flying deck, and the latest sophisticated missiles and electronic defense systems installed on board give the US Navy unrivaled battlefield supremacy. 

Aircraft carriers have contributed decisively to end many recent conflicts in the world such as in Iraq, Syria, Libya and others.

Work, employees and 007

On Mondays, more heart attacks occur than on any other day of the week.

An hour of planning saves normally 10 hours of trial.

For the last 3 years, Singapore has been the easiest country where you can start up a new business.

Statistics show that 80% of employees prefer not to go to work on Monday mornings.

The first touristic destination in the world is France. 60 million tourists come annually, as much as the whole French population.

Around 200 billion emails are exchanged on a daily basis. More than 97% of them are spam.

More than 90% of the people attending conferences tend to sleep or day dream. Less than 5% of the attendance can recall correctly the topics discussed.

The Kuwaiti Dinar is the most expensive currency in the world. 1 KWD is equal to 3.62 US Dollars

More than half of the world’s population have seen at least one James Bond movie! The most famous 007 agent remains Sean Connery.

Chocolate, Champagne and strawberries

Watermelons contain 97% of water, lettuce 97%, tomato 95% and carrots 90%


Chocolate was discovered in the sixteen’s century in Europe, people of that time found it to be “as good as sin”


It's champagne only if it comes from Champagne!
Champagne is an agricultural region in the middle of France famous for its vineyards that produce the legendary sparkling white wine!


Carrots contain zero fat, cucumbers contain zero calorie and zero fat.


Strawberry is the only natural fruit that contains zero fat and zero calorie.


Water is the only necessary element for human life, all others can be replaced or substituted.


Coca-Cola is the most consumed beverage in the world after water.


Daily consumption of red wine is believed to be the main reason behind the high longevity of French people which is the highest in the world.


Americans are the biggest consumers of meat worldwide,
They are also the biggest consumers of fast foods.


Avocado is the natural fruit that contains the most fat.

Ohio, Rome and US oil

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, all are man-made.


The driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctica near Ross Island.
There has been no rainfall there for two million years.


There are more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy.


There is a city called Rome on every continent.


The volume of water in the Amazon river
is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all the rivers in the United States.


Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it),
Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,
with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.


There are more Jews in New York city than in Tel Aviv, Israel.


The largest country in the world is the Russian Federation. It extends over 11 different time zones;

when the sun rises on Vladivostok in the morning,
It is sunset at Saint Petersburg.


The soil of the USA contains deep oil fields with huge reserves. While the exact quantities are not disclosed, many experts believe that there is enough quantities of oil that would suffice for the consumption of the USA for 100 years, conservatively.

The US, Antarctica and New York City

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.


The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.


The ice formation in Antarctica represents seventy percent of all the reserves of fresh water in the world.


The water of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezuela
drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.


As strange as it sounds, Antarctica is essentially a desert;
the average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.


Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village '.


There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland.


The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Super deep Borehole, in Russia.
It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries,
one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen,
so massive that the mud coming from the hole was boiling.


If New York city had the same population density as Alaska,
only 25 people would be living in it.

Water is life

An adult human being can stay alive ultimately for 30 days without any food, but only seven days without water.


70% of a human body is made from water.


Lack of water in the human body is the first cause of fatigue during the day.


A simple reduction of 2% of the water in the human body may cause short term memory incoherence, lack of concentration, writing and typing errors.


According to the university of washington, a glass of water in the evening helps to reduce the feeling of hunger for persons who are on diet.


Five glasses of water per day can reduce the risk of colon cancer by 45%, breast cancer by 79% and vesica cancer by up to 50%.


Some studies reveal that 8 to 10 glasses of water per day may significantly reduce back and articulation pain for up to 80% of those who suffer such symptoms.


Drinking water at appropriate times during the day can maximize its positive effects on human body:


Two glasses of water in the morning help activating the internal organs,


One glass of water before any meal helps digestion,


A glass of water before bed reduces the risk of heart attacks.


At last but not least, water would be the only proof of a possible extra terrestrial life on any planet.

Rome, Siberia and Minnesota

The smallest island in the world having the status of “Country” is Pitcairn Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles/4,53 square kilometers.


The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C.


Siberia’s famous forests: Taiga & Tundra represent more than 25% of the world's forests.


The smallest sovereign entity in the world
is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M).
It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two
tennis courts and, as of 2001, has a population of 3 people.
It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.


In the Sahara Desert, there is a town in Algeria named Tidikelt, which has not received a drop of rain for ten years.


The word Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.


St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye
after a European man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant
who lived and set up the first business there.


Ninety percent of the world's ice can be found in Antarctica .


The chance to find an unpaved road:
in the U.S.A. : 1%
in Sudan: 97%

Did you know!

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is located in Alaska.

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20%
of the world's oxygen supply.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

Canada has more lakes than all the rest of the countries in the world combined together.

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first ever paved road in the world.

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Los Angeles' original name is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the (river) Porciuncula). It is now abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time: The Big Apple.