South Africa - Informality

Firms competing against unregistered firms (% of firms)

Definition: Firms competing against unregistered firms are the percentage of firms competing against unregistered or informal firms.

Source: World Bank, Enterprise Surveys (http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/).

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Year	Value
2007	45.30
2020	17.10

Firms formally registered when operations started (% of firms)

Definition: Firms formally registered when operations started are the percentage of firms formally registered when they started operations in the country.

Source: World Bank, Enterprise Surveys (http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/).

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Year	Value
2007	91.00
2020	95.80

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Business environment