---
title: "Days and cost to register a company (B-READY) and the new-company rate, per country or ranked"
method: GET
path: "/api/business-entry.json"
---

# Days and cost to register a company (B-READY) and the new-company rate, per country or ranked

`GET /api/business-entry.json`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://geo-parity.com`
- URL: `https://geo-parity.com/api/business-entry.json`
- Auth: one of:
  - none
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in query parameter `key`

B-READY company-entry facts for a domestic and a foreign-owned company (cost in local currency, converted), minimum capital, ownership limits, online registration, plus new companies per 1,000 adults. Countries outside the B-READY cohort answer with the activity figure alone. `country`, `countries`, or a ranking by `metric`. For information only; every response says so first.

## Query parameters

- `country` string
- `countries` string
- `metric` 'daysDomestic' | 'costDomesticUsd' | 'daysForeign' | 'costForeignUsd' | 'density'
- `sort` 'lowest' | 'highest'
- `limit` number

## Response `200`

One country, comparison rows, or ranked rows; attribution names B-READY and the Entrepreneurship Database

## Other responses

- `400`: A bad metric (INVALID_METRIC) or fewer than two countries (TOO_FEW)
- `422`: A country outside the spine (UNKNOWN_COUNTRY) or one with neither dataset (NO_DATA)

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