Myanmar Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 388 Myanmar companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Myanmar company register data is held by the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA), searchable in part through the MyCO online portal. Beneficial-owner disclosure is mandated under DICA Directive No. 17/2019, reinforced by Directive 7/2023, which bans nominee director and shareholder arrangements outright — but there is no centralized public UBO search; the data is held for regulatory inspection rather than open access. Entity identity is partially verifiable at source through the MyCO portal; beneficial ownership above whatever threshold applies has to be confirmed directly through DICA rather than searched openly.
Myanmar beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Myanmar
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Myanmar, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Myanmar
Myanmar’s economy remains in a prolonged contraction. The World Bank’s December 2025 Myanmar Economic Monitor projects real GDP will still contract by 2.0% in FY2025/26 (year ending March 2026), before a modest 3.0% rebound in FY2026/27 driven mainly by post-earthquake reconstruction spending. IMF World Economic Outlook data put nominal GDP at roughly $76.8 billion in 2024 and $82.4 billion in 2025, with GDP per capita of about $1,359–$1,408 (2024) rising to roughly $1,500 in 2025. Inflation remains severe: food inflation eased to 16.2% and non-food inflation to 20.8% by late 2025, but overall inflation is still expected to stay above 20% in the near term. The currency, the Myanmar kyat (MMK), is central to the crisis: the black-market USD/MMK rate spiked from roughly 1,350 in late 2020 to over 4,500 by mid-2024 and briefly to 7,500 in August 2024, before recovering somewhat in 2025, with a persistent gap remaining between the Central Bank’s managed official reference rate and black-market rates. Structurally, the economy still rests on offshore natural gas exports (the Yadana and Shwe fields, sold mainly to Thailand and China), a garment manufacturing sector that boomed after 2011-era liberalization but has since shrunk, rice and pulses as core agricultural exports, and jade/gemstone mining concentrated in conflict zones and historically dominated by military-linked conglomerates.
Myanmar targeted about $16.7 billion in exports and $16.3 billion in imports for FY2024/25, after FY2023/24 recorded roughly $14.3 billion in exports against over $15 billion in imports. Foreign direct investment has collapsed since the February 2021 coup: cumulative post-coup FDI (through 2025) totaled about $7.4 billion versus $28.7 billion in the five years before the coup, a decline of roughly 74%, and inflows in the first four months of FY2024/25 fell to a post-coup low of about $154 million. Western governments have maintained and periodically expanded sanctions on the military’s two flagship conglomerates, Myanma Economic Holdings (MEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), first sanctioned by the US and EU in March/April 2021, as well as on jade, timber and state banks (Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank and Myanmar Investment and Commercial Bank, sanctioned by the US in June 2023). Despite sanctions, Chinese investment has become dominant, accounting for about 47% of total foreign investment inflows between 2021 and 2025, concentrated in gas, mining and Belt-and-Road-linked infrastructure such as the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor. Western oil majors have exited the gas sector: TotalEnergies announced its withdrawal in early 2022 and Chevron formally transferred its 41.1% Yadana stake on April 1, 2024, leaving Thailand’s PTTEP and state-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) as the principal operators.
Myanmar has been in civil war since the military, led by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, seized power on February 1, 2021, ousting the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta, formally the State Administration Council (SAC), has faced sustained armed resistance from the People’s Defence Force and numerous ethnic armed organizations; by early 2025 the Arakan Army controlled 14 of Rakhine State’s 17 townships, and Chin/Rakhine rebel forces held roughly 85% of Chin State. Facing manpower losses, the junta enforced the long-dormant 2010 People’s Military Service Law starting February 10, 2024, conscripting men aged 18-35 and women aged 18-27, targeting roughly 60,000 recruits per year; the announcement triggered a surge in passport applications and reportedly drove more than 100,000 people to flee their homes to avoid the draft. The junta ended the state of emergency on July 31, 2025 and held multi-phase general elections beginning December 28, 2025, with results expected by end of January 2026, widely characterized by international observers as lacking credibility given the ongoing conflict. Separately, a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck near Mandalay on March 28, 2025; death toll estimates vary sharply by source and date, ranging from Myanmar state media’s 694 dead within a day to UN/OCHA mid-2025 updates of more than 4,700 deaths, reflecting the fluid, unresolved nature of casualty accounting in a conflict zone. Myanmar’s population is roughly 54-55 million. Internal displacement has risen sharply since the coup, from around 300,000 pre-coup to approximately 3.5-3.6 million people displaced as of mid-to-late 2025. Counterparties verify a specific counterparty’s current exposure to Myanmar’s sanctions and conflict situation directly.
Myanmar company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
Pre-coup figures: 59.6% small, 26.5% medium and 13.8% large firms among 607 formally registered, non-agricultural private firms surveyed, World Bank Enterprise Survey Myanmar 2016 (fieldwork October 2016–April 2017). No comparable representative survey has been conducted since the 2021 coup, so the current-day size distribution may differ materially. Source: World Bank Enterprise Surveys, Myanmar 2016.
Foreign-controlled entities
1.47% of Myanmar firms had at least 10% foreign ownership as of the 2016 World Bank Enterprise Survey (fieldwork October 2016–April 2017, n=607), up from 0.82% in 2014. No data exists for this indicator for any year after 2016 — there has been no updated entity-ownership-share survey covering the coup period, sanctions, or the post-2021 investment collapse.
Who uses Myanmar ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Myanmar counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 1 Myanmar entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies does Zavia have on record for Myanmar?
Zavia holds 388 company records for Myanmar, of which 388 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Is beneficial ownership (UBO) data public in Myanmar?
Myanmar company register data is held by the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA), searchable in part through the MyCO online portal. Beneficial-owner disclosure is mandated under DICA Directive No. 17/2019, reinforced by Directive 7/2023, which bans nominee director and shareholder arrangements outright — but there is no centralized public UBO search; the data is held for regulatory inspection rather than open access. Entity identity is partially verifiable at source through the MyCO portal; beneficial ownership above whatever threshold applies has to be confirmed directly through DICA rather than searched openly.
Does Zavia have shareholder and group structure data for Myanmar companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 1 shareholder records for Myanmar companies, with 435 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Does Zavia have director and officer data for Myanmar companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 11 officer and director records for Myanmar companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Does Zavia have financial report data for Myanmar companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 1 digitized financial reports for Myanmar companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Can I access Myanmar's company data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Myanmar, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I read more about how UBO verification works in Myanmar?
Zavia's Myanmar beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.