BUSINESS REGISTRATION COMPARISON RECORD — complete privately Question I want to answer: Decision this statistic could actually support: Source: World Bank Entrepreneurship Database, ED2025, observation year 2024. Event: newly registered private companies with limited liability, formal sector. Economy: Source workbook row / cells: New registrations (numerator): People aged 15–64 (denominator): Source density per 1,000 people aged 15–64: Formula check: registrations / population * 1,000. Source coverage notes / local legal forms / registry differences: Comparison economy (same year and event): Numerator, denominator and density: Does the coverage fit my comparison? What further local evidence do I need? Reference only: our median of 114 available, unmarked 2024 economies is 2.19 registrations per 1,000 people aged 15–64. One economy, one weight. Not a World Bank WLD aggregate or a representative estimate of the world. The comparison excludes all 21 source-marked 2024 rows; missing is not zero. Do not infer EIN applications, approvals, foreign ownership, owner residence, sales, IRS speed, a preferred formation jurisdiction or personal eligibility. Keep actual LLC facts and current IRS filing instructions in a separate file. This record is not submitted to EINForeigner.