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 2025
Region	Newly-started companies	Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants
Stockholm County	21 864	13,6
Uppsala County	2 558	9,9
Södermanland County	1 794	10,3
Östergötland County	2 674	9,3
Jönköping County	2 217	10,0
Kronoberg County	1 132	9,3
Kalmar County	1 292	9,3
Gotland County	423	12,3
Blekinge County	809	8,8
Skåne County	10 595	12,0
Halland County	2 354	11,7
Västra Götaland County	12 333	11,2
Värmland County	1 643	10,0
Örebro County	1 777	9,6
Västmanland County	1 750	10,5
Dalarna County	1 708	10,5
Gävleborg County	1 503	9,2
Västernorrland County	1 267	9,1
Jämtland County	971	12,6
Västerbotten County	1 619	9,5
Norrbotten County	1 513	10,4
Sweden	73 796	11,4
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 2000-2025
Year	Norrbotten County	Sweden
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
2024	9,7	10,8
2025	10,4	11,4
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 2000-2025. Index year 2000=100
Year	Norrbotten County	Sweden
2000	100	100
2001	94	91
2002	96	96
2003	94	93
2004	108	106
2005	108	110
2006	114	110
2007	162	141
2008	140	141
2009	148	145
2010	176	168
2011	206	178
2012	172	167
2013	164	167
2014	182	172
2015	172	168
2016	190	165
2017	198	163
2018	181	157
2019	180	155
2020	197	169
2021	207	192
2022	218	166
2023	186	149
2024	195	157
2025	207	165
Source: Growth Analysis