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 in 1997-2022
year	Halland County	Sweden	Halland County as per cent of Sweden's
1997	1 017	37 040	2,7
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
Source: Growth Analysis