Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants

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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 per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 2022
Region	Newly-started companies	Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants
Stockholm County	22 164	14,3
Uppsala County	2 624	10,6
Södermanland County	1 754	10,0
Östergötland County	2 565	9,0
Jönköping County	2 014	9,2
Kronoberg County	1 206	10,0
Kalmar County	1 341	9,5
Gotland County	413	11,8
Blekinge County	849	9,2
Skåne County	10 230	12,0
Halland County	2 282	11,5
Västra Götaland County	12 001	11,2
Värmland County	1 509	9,1
Örebro County	1 841	10,1
Västmanland County	1 653	10,0
Dalarna County	1 689	10,3
Gävleborg County	1 537	9,2
Västernorrland County	1 392	9,9
Jämtland County	980	12,8
Västerbotten County	1 534	9,2
Norrbotten County	1 604	10,9
Sweden	73 182	11,5
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 1997-2022
Year	Halland County	Sweden
1997	6,1	6,7
1998	5,6	6,1
1999	5,8	6,4
2000	5,8	6,9
2001	5,7	6,3
2002	5,9	6,6
2003	5,6	6,4
2004	6,4	7,3
2005	7,0	7,6
2006	7,0	7,6
2007	9,9	9,7
2008	8,9	9,7
2009	9,4	10,0
2010	11,5	11,6
2011	12,2	12,3
2012	11,3	11,5
2013	11,2	11,5
2014	12,2	11,9
2015	11,5	11,6
2016	11,4	11,4
2017	11,6	11,2
2018	10,0	10,8
2019	10,8	10,7
2020	11,8	11,7
2021	13,6	13,2
2022	11,5	11,5
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 1997-2022. Index year 1997=100
Year	Halland County	Sweden
1997	100	100
1998	92	91
1999	95	96
2000	95	103
2001	93	94
2002	97	99
2003	92	96
2004	105	109
2005	115	113
2006	115	113
2007	162	145
2008	146	145
2009	154	149
2010	189	173
2011	200	184
2012	185	172
2013	184	172
2014	200	178
2015	189	173
2016	186	170
2017	190	168
2018	164	161
2019	178	160
2020	194	174
2021	223	198
2022	188	171
Source: Growth Analysis