This statistical bulletin contains headline figures and commentary from the Business Demography 2021 publication. 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.

Publications

Data

  • Business demography, UK

    Annual data on births, deaths and survival of businesses in the UK, by geographical area and Standard Industrial Classification 2007: SIC 2007 groups.

Methodoleg

  • Business demography QMI

    Quality and methodology information for UK business demography, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.

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