Women management, newly started companies

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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 by county in 2022, 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	32,5	9,3	64,8	18,0
Uppsala County	31,8	6,8	66,9	13,9
Södermanland County	31,7	6,5	66,8	13,1
Östergötland County	28,9	5,4	69,7	12,1
Jönköping County	28,7	5,5	69,7	12,3
Kronoberg County	28,3	5,9	69,8	13,4
Kalmar County	33,9	6,7	64,7	12,0
Gotland County	39,2	9,4	59,3	14,0
Blekinge County	30,6	6,0	68,1	11,9
Skåne County	31,9	7,7	66,1	15,5
Halland County	31,0	7,2	66,8	14,9
Västra Götaland County	30,4	7,0	67,5	14,6
Värmland County	30,5	5,8	67,8	12,0
Örebro County	29,7	6,1	68,7	13,5
Västmanland County	32,4	6,6	66,5	12,9
Dalarna County	30,4	6,5	67,5	13,5
Gävleborg County	30,1	5,7	67,6	12,2
Västernorrland County	30,4	6,2	68,2	13,1
Jämtland County	31,4	8,2	66,5	16,5
Västerbotten County	29,9	5,7	68,8	12,2
Norrbotten County	28,5	6,6	69,0	14,3
Sweden	31,3	7,3	66,6	14,9
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 by gender of management.

Year	Västra Götaland County		Sweden
Year	Women	Men	Women	Men
2002	31,5	66,2	31,4	66,4
2003	29,7	67,8	31,5	66,5
2004	31,9	65,7	32,2	65,4
2005	32,3	67,7	33,7	66,3
2006	35,5	64,5	35,0	65,0
2007	32,3	67,7	33,7	66,3
2008	33,1	66,9	34,1	65,9
2009	31,6	62,2	33,1	60,9
2010	30,4	62,0	32,0	60,6
2011	31,5	56,5	31,2	59,9
2012	27,6	62,3	31,1	59,9
2013	33,5	66,5	34,0	66,0
2014	33,0	67,0	34,2	65,8
2015	33,1	66,9	33,5	66,5
2016	31,0	67,4	32,1	66,4
2017	30,1	68,1	31,6	66,9
2018	31,0	67,4	32,3	66,3
2019	32,7	65,7	32,5	66,0
2020	31,8	66,9	32,4	66,4
2021	31,8	65,8	32,6	64,9
2022	30,4	67,5	31,3	66,6
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 per 1000 inhabitants

Year	Västra Götaland 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.
2002	3,8	7,7	5,9	4,2	8,7	6,6
2003	3,4	7,5	5,6	4,1	8,4	6,4
2004	4,4	8,9	6,8	4,7	9,4	7,3
2005	4,5	9,8	7,1	5,2	9,9	7,6
2006	5,1	8,9	7,1	5,4	9,6	7,6
2007	5,7	11,4	9,2	6,2	11,9	9,7
2008	5,8	11,3	9,2	6,3	11,8	9,7
2009	6,1	11,6	9,5	6,7	11,9	10,0
2010	7,0	13,7	11,2	7,6	13,9	11,6
2011	7,5	13,0	11,7	7,8	14,5	12,3
2012	6,0	13,1	10,7	7,3	13,6	11,5
2013	7,7	14,8	11,3	7,9	14,9	11,5
2014	7,5	14,8	11,2	8,3	15,4	11,9
2015	7,4	14,5	11,0	7,9	15,1	11,6
2016	6,9	14,3	10,7	7,6	15,0	11,4
2017	6,6	14,4	10,8	7,3	14,8	11,3
2018	6,4	13,4	10,1	7,1	14,0	10,8
2019	7,1	13,6	10,4	7,1	13,8	10,6
2020	7,4	14,8	11,4	7,7	15,1	11,7
2021	8,0	15,6	12,2	8,3	15,7	12,4
2022	7,0	14,6	11,1	7,3	14,9	11,4
Source: Growth Analysis

Newly started companies in 2002-2022 per 1000 inhabitants. Index year 2002=100

Year	Västra Götaland 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.
2002	100	100	100	100	100	100
2003	89	97	95	98	97	97
2004	116	116	115	112	108	111
2005	118	128	120	123	114	115
2006	133	116	120	127	111	115
2007	150	148	156	148	137	147
2008	153	147	156	150	136	147
2009	160	150	160	159	137	151
2010	183	178	190	181	160	176
2011	197	168	198	185	166	186
2012	158	171	182	173	156	174
2013	202	192	192	189	171	174
2014	198	192	190	197	177	180
2015	196	189	187	188	173	175
2016	181	186	181	180	173	172
2017	174	187	183	173	170	171
2018	169	174	172	170	161	164
2019	186	176	176	170	159	160
2020	195	193	193	184	174	177
2021	210	203	207	197	181	188
2022	183	190	188	175	171	173
Source: Growth Analysis