Women management, newly started companies

Present Timeline Index

Last update: 2024-07-11

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.

PDF

Newly started companies by county in 2023, proportion (%) by gender
Region	Women	Newly started companies per 1000 women aged 16-64	Men	Newly started companies per 1000 men aged 16-64
Stockholm County	34,7	8,7	65,3	15,8
Uppsala County	34,8	6,6	65,1	12,1
Södermanland County	34,7	6,3	65,3	11,4
Östergötland County	30,6	5,3	69,4	11,3
Jönköping County	29,3	5,0	70,7	11,2
Kronoberg County	30,2	5,7	69,7	12,2
Kalmar County	30,2	5,3	69,8	11,5
Gotland County	34,4	7,3	65,6	13,5
Blekinge County	33,0	5,5	67,0	10,0
Skåne County	33,9	7,1	66,1	13,6
Halland County	32,6	6,8	67,4	13,5
Västra Götaland County	32,4	6,7	67,5	13,1
Värmland County	33,7	5,8	66,3	10,7
Örebro County	30,4	5,3	69,5	11,6
Västmanland County	30,3	5,3	69,7	11,5
Dalarna County	30,2	6,0	69,7	13,1
Gävleborg County	32,0	5,4	68,0	10,9
Västernorrland County	32,2	5,7	67,7	11,3
Jämtland County	32,8	7,4	67,2	14,3
Västerbotten County	29,5	4,7	70,5	10,5
Norrbotten County	29,1	5,7	70,9	12,3
Sweden	33,0	6,8	67,0	13,2
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2003-2023 by gender of management.

Year	Norrbotten County		Sweden
Year	Women	Men	Women	Men
2003	31,1	66,7	31,5	66,5
2004	33,7	64,6	32,2	65,4
2005	32,0	68,0	33,7	66,3
2006	32,5	67,5	35,0	65,0
2007	36,4	63,6	33,7	66,3
2008	32,0	68,0	34,1	65,9
2009	33,1	60,9	33,1	60,9
2010	31,5	62,3	32,0	60,6
2011	30,7	64,9	31,2	59,9
2012	33,4	60,8	31,1	59,9
2013	32,1	67,9	34,0	66,0
2014	31,1	68,9	34,2	65,8
2015	31,3	68,7	33,5	66,5
2016	28,1	70,4	32,1	66,4
2017	28,5	69,6	31,6	66,9
2018	28,6	69,9	32,3	66,3
2019	28,5	70,3	32,5	66,0
2020	33,1	65,6	32,4	66,4
2021	31,5	66,3	32,6	64,9
2022	28,5	69,0	31,3	66,6
2023	29,1	70,9	33,0	67,0
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2003-2023 per 1000 inhabitants

Year	Norrbotten County			Sweden
Year	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.
2003	3,1	6,0	4,7	4,1	8,4	6,4
2004	3,5	7,4	5,5	4,7	9,4	7,3
2005	3,3	7,7	5,4	5,2	9,9	7,6
2006	3,8	7,2	5,7	5,4	9,6	7,6
2007	5,7	9,1	7,9	6,2	11,9	9,7
2008	4,4	8,6	7,0	6,3	11,8	9,7
2009	6,7	11,9	10,0	6,7	11,9	10,0
2010	5,8	10,5	8,8	7,6	13,9	11,6
2011	6,0	11,6	10,3	7,8	14,5	12,3
2012	6,0	10,0	8,6	7,3	13,6	11,5
2013	5,5	10,6	8,2	7,9	14,9	11,5
2014	6,0	12,0	9,2	8,3	15,4	11,9
2015	5,7	11,3	8,6	7,9	15,1	11,6
2016	5,7	13,0	9,5	7,6	15,0	11,4
2017	5,9	13,1	9,9	7,3	14,8	11,3
2018	5,5	12,0	9,1	7,1	14,0	10,8
2019	5,4	12,0	8,9	7,1	13,8	10,6
2020	6,9	12,3	9,9	7,7	15,1	11,7
2021	6,8	12,8	10,2	8,3	15,7	12,4
2022	6,6	14,3	11,0	7,3	14,9	11,4
2023	5,7	12,3	9,2	6,8	13,2	10,1
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2003-2023 per 1000 inhabitants. Index year 2003=100

Year	Norrbotten County			Sweden
Year	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.	Newly started companies per 1000 women	Newly started companies per 1000 men	Newly started companies per 1000 inh.
2003	100	100	100	100	100	100
2004	113	123	117	115	112	114
2005	106	128	114	126	118	119
2006	123	120	121	131	115	119
2007	184	152	168	151	142	152
2008	142	143	149	154	140	152
2009	216	199	212	163	142	156
2010	186	174	187	185	166	181
2011	192	193	219	190	172	192
2012	194	167	183	178	161	180
2013	178	177	174	194	178	180
2014	193	201	195	202	183	186
2015	183	188	183	193	180	181
2016	185	216	203	184	179	178
2017	192	219	211	177	176	176
2018	177	201	193	174	167	169
2019	174	200	189	174	165	165
2020	224	205	210	189	180	182
2021	219	213	217	202	187	194
2022	214	238	233	179	177	179
2023	183	205	195	167	157	158
Source: Growth Analysis