Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants

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Last update: 2023-07-14

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 2022
Region	Newly-started companies	Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants
Stockholm County	22 164	14,3
Uppsala County	2 624	10,6
Södermanland County	1 754	10,0
Östergötland County	2 565	9,0
Jönköping County	2 014	9,2
Kronoberg County	1 206	10,0
Kalmar County	1 341	9,5
Gotland County	413	11,8
Blekinge County	849	9,2
Skåne County	10 230	12,0
Halland County	2 282	11,5
Västra Götaland County	12 001	11,2
Värmland County	1 509	9,1
Örebro County	1 841	10,1
Västmanland County	1 653	10,0
Dalarna County	1 689	10,3
Gävleborg County	1 537	9,2
Västernorrland County	1 392	9,9
Jämtland County	980	12,8
Västerbotten County	1 534	9,2
Norrbotten County	1 604	10,9
Sweden	73 182	11,5
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 1997-2022
Year	Västra Götaland County	Sweden
1997	6,7	6,7
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
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly-started companies per 1000 inhabitants (aged 16-64) in 1997-2022. Index year 1997=100
Year	Västra Götaland County	Sweden
1997	100	100
1998	90	91
1999	88	96
2000	94	103
2001	87	94
2002	88	99
2003	82	96
2004	101	109
2005	106	113
2006	106	113
2007	142	145
2008	137	145
2009	142	149
2010	167	173
2011	175	184
2012	160	172
2013	169	172
2014	169	178
2015	166	173
2016	159	170
2017	160	168
2018	151	161
2019	157	160
2020	170	174
2021	195	198
2022	167	171
Source: Growth Analysis