Women management, newly started companies

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Last update: 2026-11-02

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 by county in 2025, 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	34,5	9,5	65,5	17,6
Uppsala County	32,8	6,5	67,2	13,3
Södermanland County	34,1	7,1	65,9	13,3
Östergötland County	31,2	6,0	68,8	12,4
Jönköping County	29,8	6,2	70,2	13,6
Kronoberg County	31,5	6,1	68,5	12,3
Kalmar County	30,7	5,9	69,3	12,5
Gotland County	35,9	8,9	64,1	15,7
Blekinge County	30,9	5,8	69,1	11,7
Skåne County	33,8	8,2	66,2	15,8
Halland County	32,8	7,8	67,2	15,4
Västra Götaland County	32,6	7,5	67,4	14,8
Värmland County	29,9	6,2	70,1	13,6
Örebro County	30,7	6,0	69,3	13,1
Västmanland County	32,7	7,0	67,3	13,7
Dalarna County	30,4	6,6	69,6	14,2
Gävleborg County	33,3	6,3	66,7	11,9
Västernorrland County	30,6	5,7	69,4	12,2
Jämtland County	35,5	9,1	64,5	15,8
Västerbotten County	32,7	6,4	67,3	12,3
Norrbotten County	29,4	6,5	70,6	13,8
Sweden	33,0	7,7	67,0	14,9
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2005-2025 by gender of management.

Year	Norrbotten County		Sweden
Year	Women	Men	Women	Men
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
2024	28,9	71,1	32,3	67,7
2025	29,4	70,6	33,0	67,0
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2005-2025 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.
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
2024	6,0	13,1	9,7	7,1	14,3	10,8
2025	6,5	13,8	10,4	7,7	14,9	11,4
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2005-2025 per 1000 inhabitants. Index year 2005=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.
2005	100	100	100	100	100	100
2006	116	94	105	104	97	100
2007	174	118	147	120	120	128
2008	134	112	130	122	119	128
2009	205	155	185	129	120	131
2010	176	136	164	147	140	153
2011	182	151	191	151	146	162
2012	184	130	160	141	137	152
2013	169	138	152	154	150	152
2014	183	157	170	160	155	157
2015	173	147	160	153	152	152
2016	175	169	177	146	152	150
2017	182	171	184	140	149	149
2018	168	157	168	138	141	142
2019	165	156	165	138	140	139
2020	212	160	184	150	152	154
2021	208	166	189	160	158	163
2022	203	186	204	142	150	151
2023	174	160	171	132	133	133
2024	183	170	181	138	145	143
2025	198	180	193	148	150	150
Source: Growth Analysis