Tentmaker Reports
Sao Tome and Principe Report
Entrepreneurial Missions Index
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General Information
Population
192,993 (166th most populous country in the world)
| RELIGIONS | |
|---|---|
| Catholic | 70.3% |
| Evangelical | 3.4% |
| New Apostolic | 2.0% |
| Adventist | 1.8% |
| Other | 3.1% |
| None | 19.4% |
| LANGUAGES | |
|---|---|
| Portuguese |
Industries
Light construction, textiles, soap, beer, fish processing, timber
Unless otherwise noted, all information included here was obtained from the World Factbook project 4, conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). For more detailed information about Sao Tome and Principe, visit https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/st.html.
Business Information
The World Bank ranks Sao Tome and Principe as 160 out of 183 economies in terms of ease of doing business. The country ranks as 108 (of 183) in terms of ease of starting a business.It requires 0 procedures, takes 0 days, and costs N/A% of income per capita to start a business in Sao Tome and Principe.
In order to start a business in Sao Tome and Principe, one must follow these procedures:
- Check the uniqueness of the proposed company name and reserve a name
- Notarize the company statutes
- Deposit the legally required initial capital in a bank and obtain deposit evidence
- Apply for advertising of the incorporation notice in the official gazette (Diadio de Republica)
- Advertising of the incorporation notice in a national newspaper
- Register the company with the Commercial Registry
- Apply for commercial operations permit (alvara)
- Apply for taxpayer identification number
- Register employees with the social security
- Obtain and legalize the special company books
Unless otherwise noted, all information included here was obtained from the Doing Business project 3, conducted by the World Bank. For more detailed information about starting a business in Sao Tome and Principe, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/.
Sao Tome and Principe Economic Freedom
The annual survey Economic Freedom of the World is an indicator produced by the Fraser Institute, a libertarian think tank which attempts to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations. Economic Freedom of the World index has been more widely used than any other measure of economic freedom, because of its coverage of a longer time period
Their measure of economic freedom is based on that the following standards:
- Personal choice rather than collective choice,
- Voluntary exchange coordinated by markets rather than allocation via the political process,
- Freedom to enter and compete in markets, and
- Protection of persons and their property from aggression by others.
A state will rate high when it focuses on protection of people and their property from the actions of aggressors, enforcement of contracts, and provision of the limited set of public goods like roads, flood control projects, and money of stable value and little else, but a country’s rating on the EFW summary index will fall as government expenditures increase and regulations expand.
Sao Tome and Principe Summary
Sao Tome and Principe Links
2 Free the World
Gwartney, James and Robert Lawson with Herbert Grubel, Jakob de Haan, Jan-Egbert Sturm, and Eelco Zandberg (2009). Economic Freedom of the World: 2009 Annual Report. Vancouver, BC: The Fraser Institute. Data retrieved from www.freetheworld.com.
