Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants

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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 per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 2023
Region	Newly-started companies	Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants
Stockholm County	19 916	12,7
Uppsala County	2 411	9,6
Södermanland County	1 589	9,1
Östergötland County	2 459	8,6
Jönköping County	1 851	8,4
Kronoberg County	1 132	9,3
Kalmar County	1 218	8,7
Gotland County	366	10,5
Blekinge County	737	8,0
Skåne County	9 186	10,6
Halland County	2 078	10,4
Västra Götaland County	11 071	10,2
Värmland County	1 404	8,5
Örebro County	1 602	8,7
Västmanland County	1 438	8,6
Dalarna County	1 612	9,9
Gävleborg County	1 391	8,4
Västernorrland County	1 229	8,8
Jämtland County	855	11,1
Västerbotten County	1 323	7,9
Norrbotten County	1 360	9,3
Sweden	66 228	10,3
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 1998-2023
Year	Norrbotten County	Sweden
1998	4,4	6,1
1999	4,8	6,4
2000	5,0	6,9
2001	4,7	6,3
2002	4,8	6,6
2003	4,7	6,4
2004	5,4	7,3
2005	5,4	7,6
2006	5,7	7,6
2007	8,1	9,7
2008	7,0	9,7
2009	7,4	10,0
2010	8,8	11,6
2011	10,3	12,3
2012	8,6	11,5
2013	8,2	11,5
2014	9,1	11,9
2015	8,6	11,6
2016	9,5	11,4
2017	9,9	11,2
2018	9,1	10,8
2019	9,0	10,7
2020	9,9	11,7
2021	10,3	13,2
2022	10,9	11,5
2023	9,3	10,3
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 1998-2023. Index year 1998=100
Year	Norrbotten County	Sweden
1998	100	100
1999	109	105
2000	114	113
2001	107	103
2002	109	108
2003	107	105
2004	123	120
2005	123	124
2006	130	124
2007	184	159
2008	159	159
2009	168	164
2010	200	190
2011	234	202
2012	195	189
2013	186	189
2014	207	195
2015	195	190
2016	216	186
2017	225	184
2018	206	177
2019	205	176
2020	224	192
2021	235	217
2022	248	188
2023	211	169
Source: Growth Analysis