Newly-started companies

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Last update: 2024-06-24

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 in 1998-2023
year	Halland County	Sweden	Halland County as per cent of Sweden's
1998	933	34 040	2,7
1999	983	35 820	2,7
2000	988	38 745	2,6
2001	969	35 517	2,7
2002	1 012	37 348	2,7
2003	978	36 413	2,7
2004	1 124	41 792	2,7
2005	1 247	43 932	2,8
2006	1 260	44 386	2,8
2007	1 752	57 194	3,1
2008	1 625	57 801	2,8
2009	1 741	59 597	2,9
2010	2 128	69 855	3,0
2011	2 261	73 709	3,1
2012	2 095	69 216	3,0
2013	2 084	69 242	3,0
2014	2 257	71 668	3,1
2015	2 146	70 135	3,1
2016	2 229	71 825	3,1
2017	2 200	68 887	3,2
2018	1 923	66 750	2,9
2019	2 099	66 892	3,1
2020	2 317	73 687	3,1
2021	2 501	78 685	3,2
2022	2 282	73 182	3,1
2023	2 078	66 228	3,1
Source: Growth Analysis