Women management, newly started companies

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Last update: 2023-07-14

Explanation

The Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, is responsible for official statistics on newly-started companies. The survey is carried out by Statistics Sweden, SCB. The purpose of the survey is to assess the number of newly-started companies in a given year in Sweden by county and industry. The survey is a selective survey and the result is based on the replies to a postal survey, unless otherwise stated.
A company is regarded as newly started when:

the operation is completely newly started or
the operation has been restarted after having been dormant for at least two years or
a person starts a business to run an operation which the person previously carried out as an employee.

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Newly started companies by county in 2022, proportion (%) by gender
Region	Women	Newly started companies per 1000 women aged 16-64	Men	Newly started companies per 1000 men aged 16-64
Stockholm County	32,5	9,3	64,8	18,0
Uppsala County	31,8	6,8	66,9	13,9
Södermanland County	31,7	6,5	66,8	13,1
Östergötland County	28,9	5,4	69,7	12,1
Jönköping County	28,7	5,5	69,7	12,3
Kronoberg County	28,3	5,9	69,8	13,4
Kalmar County	33,9	6,7	64,7	12,0
Gotland County	39,2	9,4	59,3	14,0
Blekinge County	30,6	6,0	68,1	11,9
Skåne County	31,9	7,7	66,1	15,5
Halland County	31,0	7,2	66,8	14,9
Västra Götaland County	30,4	7,0	67,5	14,6
Värmland County	30,5	5,8	67,8	12,0
Örebro County	29,7	6,1	68,7	13,5
Västmanland County	32,4	6,6	66,5	12,9
Dalarna County	30,4	6,5	67,5	13,5
Gävleborg County	30,1	5,7	67,6	12,2
Västernorrland County	30,4	6,2	68,2	13,1
Jämtland County	31,4	8,2	66,5	16,5
Västerbotten County	29,9	5,7	68,8	12,2
Norrbotten County	28,5	6,6	69,0	14,3
Sweden	31,3	7,3	66,6	14,9
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 by gender of management.

Year	Norrbotten County		Sweden
Year	Women	Men	Women	Men
2002	31,2	67,2	31,4	66,4
2003	31,1	66,7	31,5	66,5
2004	33,7	64,6	32,2	65,4
2005	32,0	68,0	33,7	66,3
2006	32,5	67,5	35,0	65,0
2007	36,4	63,6	33,7	66,3
2008	32,0	68,0	34,1	65,9
2009	33,1	60,9	33,1	60,9
2010	31,5	62,3	32,0	60,6
2011	30,7	64,9	31,2	59,9
2012	33,4	60,8	31,1	59,9
2013	32,1	67,9	34,0	66,0
2014	31,1	68,9	34,2	65,8
2015	31,3	68,7	33,5	66,5
2016	28,1	70,4	32,1	66,4
2017	28,5	69,6	31,6	66,9
2018	28,6	69,9	32,3	66,3
2019	28,5	70,3	32,5	66,0
2020	33,1	65,6	32,4	66,4
2021	31,5	66,3	32,6	64,9
2022	28,5	69,0	31,3	66,6
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 per 1000 inhabitants

Year	Norrbotten County			Sweden
Year	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.
2002	3,2	6,3	4,9	4,2	8,7	6,6
2003	3,1	6,0	4,7	4,1	8,4	6,4
2004	3,5	7,4	5,5	4,7	9,4	7,3
2005	3,3	7,7	5,4	5,2	9,9	7,6
2006	3,8	7,2	5,7	5,4	9,6	7,6
2007	5,7	9,1	7,9	6,2	11,9	9,7
2008	4,4	8,6	7,0	6,3	11,8	9,7
2009	6,7	11,9	10,0	6,7	11,9	10,0
2010	5,8	10,5	8,8	7,6	13,9	11,6
2011	6,0	11,6	10,3	7,8	14,5	12,3
2012	6,0	10,0	8,6	7,3	13,6	11,5
2013	5,5	10,6	8,2	7,9	14,9	11,5
2014	6,0	12,0	9,2	8,3	15,4	11,9
2015	5,7	11,3	8,6	7,9	15,1	11,6
2016	5,7	13,0	9,5	7,6	15,0	11,4
2017	5,9	13,1	9,9	7,3	14,8	11,3
2018	5,5	12,0	9,1	7,1	14,0	10,8
2019	5,4	12,0	8,9	7,1	13,8	10,6
2020	6,9	12,3	9,9	7,7	15,1	11,7
2021	6,8	12,8	10,2	8,3	15,7	12,4
2022	6,6	14,3	11,0	7,3	14,9	11,4
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 per 1000 inhabitants. Index year 2002=100

Year	Norrbotten County			Sweden
Year	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.
2002	100	100	100	100	100	100
2003	97	95	96	98	97	97
2004	109	117	112	112	108	111
2005	102	122	110	123	114	115
2006	119	115	116	127	111	115
2007	178	144	161	148	137	147
2008	138	137	143	150	136	147
2009	209	189	203	159	137	151
2010	180	166	180	181	160	176
2011	186	184	210	185	166	186
2012	188	159	176	173	156	174
2013	173	169	167	189	171	174
2014	187	191	187	197	177	180
2015	177	179	176	188	173	175
2016	179	206	194	180	173	172
2017	186	208	202	173	170	171
2018	171	191	185	170	161	164
2019	169	190	181	170	159	160
2020	217	195	202	184	174	177
2021	212	203	208	197	181	188
2022	207	227	223	175	171	173
Source: Growth Analysis