What does it take to start a business in Malaysia? According to data collected by Doing Business, starting a business there requires 3.0 procedures, takes 5.5 days, costs 7.2% of income per capita and requires paid-in minimum capital of 0.0% of income per capita (figure 2.1). Most indicator sets refer to a case scenario in the largest business city of an economy, except for 11 economies for which the data are a population-weighted average of the 2 largest business cities. See the chapter on distance to frontier and ease of doing business ranking at the end of this profile for more details.