Number of business births and deaths in the UK 2004-2022

Published by D. Clark, Jul 4, 2024
In 2022 there were 336,925 births of new businesses, compared with 345,590 business deaths, meaning there was a net loss of around 8,565 businesses in that year. During the provided time period, 2009 and 2010 are the only years in which the number of business deaths exceeded the number of births.

Number of business enterprise births and deaths in the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2022

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Release date

November 2023

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2004 to 2022

Supplementary notes

A new enterprise (or 'birth') is identified as a business that was present in year , but did not exist in year t-1 or t-2. Births are identified by making comparison of annual active population files and identifying those present in the latest file, but not the two previous ones.

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