UK business survival rate 2023 | Statista

As of 2023, UK business enterprises founded in 2022 had a one-year survival rate of 92.3 percent, compared with 93.4 percent in the previous year. For businesses founded in 2018, just 39.4 percent were still operating in 2022.

Survival rate of new enterprises in the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2023, by years survived

Year of enterprise birth	1 year	2 years	3 years	4 years	5 years
2022	92.3%	-	-	-	-
2021	93.4%	70.4%	-	-	-
2020	92.9%	71.3%	53%	-	-
2019	94.6%	74.6%	55.9%	45%	-
2018	94.8%	74.1%	57.6%	47.3%	39.4%
2017	93.7%	72.9%	56.1%	46%	39.6%
2016*	95.2%	71.1%	54.1%	44.9%	38.4%
2015	89.7%	71.3%	55.3%	46%	39.6%
2014	92.2%	75.7%	61.2%	49.3%	42.5%
2013	93.5%	75%	60.8%	51.2%	42.4%
2012	91.2%	73.8%	59.4%	50.4%	43.2%
2011	93.1%	75.6%	60.5%	51%	44.1%
2010	86.7%	72.5%	57.1%	48.1%	41.4%
2009	90.8%	73.8%	59.6%	48.9%	41.7%
2008	92%	74%	58%	48.9%	41.3%
2007	95.4%	81.1%	63%	52%	44.6%

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Release date

November 2024

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Survey time period

2007 to 2023

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*Change in methodology from 2016 onwards. Further information availabile from the 'Measuring the Data' section of the ONS article.

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