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	Västra Götaland County	Sweden
1998	6,0	6,1
1999	5,9	6,4
2000	6,3	6,9
2001	5,8	6,3
2002	5,9	6,6
2003	5,5	6,4
2004	6,8	7,3
2005	7,1	7,6
2006	7,1	7,6
2007	9,5	9,7
2008	9,2	9,7
2009	9,5	10,0
2010	11,2	11,6
2011	11,7	12,3
2012	10,7	11,5
2013	11,3	11,5
2014	11,3	11,9
2015	11,1	11,6
2016	10,7	11,4
2017	10,7	11,2
2018	10,1	10,8
2019	10,5	10,7
2020	11,4	11,7
2021	13,1	13,2
2022	11,2	11,5
2023	10,2	10,3
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 1998-2023. Index year 1998=100
Year	Västra Götaland County	Sweden
1998	100	100
1999	98	105
2000	105	113
2001	97	103
2002	98	108
2003	92	105
2004	113	120
2005	118	124
2006	118	124
2007	158	159
2008	153	159
2009	158	164
2010	187	190
2011	195	202
2012	178	189
2013	188	189
2014	188	195
2015	185	190
2016	178	186
2017	179	184
2018	169	177
2019	175	176
2020	190	192
2021	218	217
2022	186	188
2023	170	169
Source: Growth Analysis