United Kingdom (UK): water supply, sewage & waste disposal number of enterprises 2018

In 2018, the number of enterprises in the water supply (sewerage, waste management, and remediation activities) industry in the United Kingdom increased by 178 enterprises (+2.34 percent) since 2017. With 7,782 enterprises, the number of enterprises thereby reached its highest value in the observed period.
According to Eurostat, this includes all companies that were active during at least a part of the reference period.

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Number of enterprises in the water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2018

Characteristic	Number of enterprises
2018	7,782
2017	7,604
2016b	7,402
2015	7,205
2014	7,050
2013	7,073
2012	6,810
2011	6,415
2010	6,000
2009	5,769

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Release date

March 2024

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2009 to 2018

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
Structural business statistics (SBS) describes the structure, conduct and performance of economic activities, down to the most detailed activity level (several hundred economic sectors).
Number of enterprises: a count of the number of enterprises active during at least a part of the reference period. Definition for number of enterprises differs in some countries.
Data coverage corresponds to code E of the CE_Rev2, which is water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities.

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