These Economic Estimates are Official Statistics, used to provide an estimate of the number of business births and deaths in DCMS sectors.
These statistics cover the following DCMS sectors:
Creative Industries Cultural Sector Digital Sector Gambling Sport Telecoms Tourism (defined here as tourism industries)
In addition to the standard DCMS sectors, this release includes figures for the Audio-Visual sector.
A definition for each sector is available in the associated methodology note along with details of methods and data limitations. Civil Society is not covered in this release, as the sector is not defined on an equivalent basis.
09 July 2020
DCMS aims to continuously improve the quality of estimates and better meet user needs and welcomes feedback on this release. Feedback should be sent to DCMS via email at evidence@culture.gov.uk.
This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics, as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.
The responsible statistician for this release is Rishi Vaidya. For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.
This document summarises the quality assurance processes applied during production of the release. It covers quality assurance carried out by both DCMS and our data providers (ONS).
The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.
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Business births and deaths from the Inter-Departmental Business Register with high-level breakdowns by industry and region. Quarterly official statistics in development.
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Annual data on births, deaths and survival of businesses in the UK, by geographical area and Standard Industrial Classification 2007: SIC 2007 groups.
In 2023, there were ******* births of new businesses, compared with ******* business deaths, meaning there was a net gain of around ***** businesses. During the provided time period, 2009, 2010 and 2022 are the only years in which the number of business deaths exceeded the number of births.
This statistic shows the number of births and deaths of business start-ups in the United States each quarter from 2004 to 2009. In the fourth quarter of 2008 approximately 171,000 start-ups were grounded and 226,000 ceased to operate.
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This is the number of new enterprises, also known as business births, in the area for the quarter. Business creations are new enterprise entries in the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR). Enterprises are added to the IDBR when a new business is identified from administrative sources (usually the Value Added Tax (VAT) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE) systems).
An enterprise can be defined as the smallest combination of legal units that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, that benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. An enterprise may also be a sole legal unit.
Business creations for this data are based on the date on which the action occurs on the IDBR. Data is extracted from the IDBR quarterly and may be subject to revision. The date a business is added to the IDBR is generally on the same day, or within a few days, of the legal creation of the business as a company with Companies House. However, this can be several weeks after the effective birth of the business.
An unspecified geography category has been introduced to deal with the distorting effect of multiple registrations at the same site. These apply where there are 250 plus creations or closures at the same postcode. Any creations or closures that happen at one of these postcodes are taken out of their geography and placed into the unspecified category. These cases still count towards the UK totals and may account for up to 4 per cent of the overall total.
Figures for each period are rounded independently to the nearest 5 using controlled rounding. The ONS statistics presented are "Experimental Statistics", so care needs to be taken when interpreting them. Care should be taken interpreting figures for a single period, therefore the annual business demography publication is a more accurate reflection of business births and deaths.
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Business demography data counts numbers of active businesses with turnover or employment in a reporting year. It also indicates numbers of new businesses (business births) and numbers of businesses terminated (business deaths) during the reporting year.
Numbers and percentages of businesses that were newly created during years leading up to the latest reporting year, and which were still surviving, are also shown.
When using the data, comparative birth or death rates may be constructed adhoc if needed, by dividing the number of births or deaths by the number of active businesses.
Please note that due to being required early in the reporting cycle, numbers of business deaths are provisional and may be subject to later revision. For more information about the dataset and its methodology, see the source link.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Indicator : Business DemographyTheme: BusinessSource : Office for National Statistics (ONS) - Business demography, quarterly experimental statisticsFrequency : QuarterlyDefinition : This dataset shows quarterly business births and deaths in the Black Country between 2020-2024. Business births means new business registrations, business death means the business has ceased to trade.Latest Period : April to June 2024Released : July 2024Next Update : TBALink:https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/businessdemographyquarterlyexperimentalstatisticsuk
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Business demography statistics provide an annual snapshot (at February) of the structure and characteristics of New Zealand businesses. The series covers economically significant enterprises that are engaged in producing goods and services in New Zealand.
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Business demography data counts numbers of active businesses with turnover or employment in a reporting year. It also indicates numbers of new businesses (business births) and numbers of businesses terminated (business deaths) during the reporting year. Numbers and percentages of businesses that were newly created during years leading up to the latest reporting year, and which were still surviving, are also shown. When using the data, comparative business birth or death rates may be constructed adhoc if needed, by dividing the number of births or deaths by the number of active businesses. Please note that due to being required early in the reporting cycle, numbers of business deaths are provisional and may be subject to later revision. For more information about the dataset and its methodology, see the source link. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Data on enterprise births, deaths, active enterprises and survival rates across boroughs.
Data includes:
Notes and definitions:
Data on size of firms (micro-business, SME, large) for business and employees in London by industry can be found on the ONS website.
More Business Demographics data on the ONS website
In 2020, the birth rate average of new enterprises in the EU countries stood at ****. At the same time, the EU average death rate of enterprises was ****. In the Central and Eastern European countries, the rate was generally higher in both areas. Lithuania, in particular, recorded high company deaths, with a loss of around ** percent. Still, at the same time, they recorded a comparatively high rate of business births, at about ** percent. Czechia was the closest to the EU average.
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This is the number of business deaths in the area for the quarter. Business closures are those removed from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR). A business is removed from the IDBR if its turnover and employment are zero for several periods, or if the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is notified that the business has ceased trading through an administrative or survey source.
An enterprise can be defined as the smallest combination of legal units that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, that benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. An enterprise may also be a sole legal unit.
For business closures, the registration process can take a little longer because the death of a business may be long and complex. The effective death of a business may occur several months before its actual death from a legal perspective. A business is removed from the IDBR if information from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), ONS business surveys, or Companies House indicates it is no longer active.
An unspecified geography category has been introduced to deal with the distorting effect of multiple registrations at the same site. These apply where there are 250 plus creations or closures at the same postcode. Any creations or closures that happen at one of these postcodes are taken out of their geography and placed into the unspecified category. These cases still count towards the UK totals and may account for up to 4 per cent of the overall total.
Figures for each period are rounded independently to the nearest 5 using controlled rounding. The ONS statistics presented are "Experimental Statistics", so care needs to be taken when interpreting them. Care should be taken interpreting figures for a single period, therefore the annual business demography publication is a more accurate reflection of business births and deaths.
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Business creations and closures from the Inter-Departmental Business Register, a low-level geographic breakdown for the UK, quarterly data. These are official statistics in development
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This Statistical Bulletin presents data on enterprise births, deaths and survival rates. Includes data for Wales and local authorities within Wales.
Source agency: Welsh Government
Designation: National Statistics
Language: English
Alternative title: Business Demography: Enterprise Births and Deaths in Wales
This statistic shows the number of jobs gained and lost as a direct result of births and deaths of business start-ups in the private sector in the United States each quarter from 2002 to 2009. In the fourth quarter of 2008 approximately 697,000 jobs were gained as a result of start-ups being grounded, while 891,000 jobs were lost when start-ups were forced to close down.
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Number and rate (per 10,000 adults) of VAT/PAYE registrations and de-registrations.
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This is the number of deaths of enterprises in the area. A death is defined as a business that was on the active file in year t, but was no longer present in the active file in t+1 and t+2.In order to provide an early estimate of deaths, an adjustment has been made to the latest two years' deaths to allow for reactivations. These figures are provisional and subject to revision. This data is produced from an extract taken from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR).
The publication focuses on changes to the registered business population, that is, those businesses registered at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for Value Added Tax (VAT) and/or Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) and at Companies House. The starting point for business demography is the concept of a population of active businesses in a reference year (t). These are defined as businesses that had either turnover or employment at any time during the reference period. Births and deaths are then identified by comparing active business populations for different years.
Figures for each period are rounded independently to the nearest 5 using controlled rounding. Quarterly business births and deaths are also available.
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This product includes births, deaths and survivals of UK enterprises. The active stock of businesses is also shown, so that birth and death rates can be calculated. Source agency: Office for National Statistics Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Business Demography
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Data on enterprise births, deaths, active enterprises and survival rates in Barnet, as well as comparative data across Greater London boroughs.
This data is adapted from data from the Office for National Statistics and published by the GLA licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Comparative data and other information can also be found on the London Datastore.
Data includes:
1) the most recent annual figures for enterprise births and deaths. Births and deaths are identified by comparing active populations of enterprises for different years
2) time series of the number of births and deaths of entrprises together with a percentage of births and deaths to active enterprises in a given year
3) a time series of the number of active enterprises. Active enterprises are businesses that had either turnover or employment at any time during the reference period.
4) survival rates of enterprises for up to 5 years after birth
Data on size of firms (micro-business, SME, large) for business and employees in London by industry can be found on the ONS website.
More Business Demographics data on the ONS website
These Economic Estimates are Official Statistics, used to provide an estimate of the number of business births and deaths in DCMS sectors.
These statistics cover the following DCMS sectors:
Creative Industries Cultural Sector Digital Sector Gambling Sport Telecoms Tourism (defined here as tourism industries)
In addition to the standard DCMS sectors, this release includes figures for the Audio-Visual sector.
A definition for each sector is available in the associated methodology note along with details of methods and data limitations. Civil Society is not covered in this release, as the sector is not defined on an equivalent basis.
09 July 2020
DCMS aims to continuously improve the quality of estimates and better meet user needs and welcomes feedback on this release. Feedback should be sent to DCMS via email at evidence@culture.gov.uk.
This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics, as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.
The responsible statistician for this release is Rishi Vaidya. For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.
This document summarises the quality assurance processes applied during production of the release. It covers quality assurance carried out by both DCMS and our data providers (ONS).
The document above contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.