Press release No. 325 of 16 September 2016
WIESBADEN – In the first half of 2016, roughly 66,000 businesses were started whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they have greater economic importance. Based on an evaluation of business notifications, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 0.7% compared with the first half of 2015.
The number of small business start-ups fell by 10.4% to roughly 95,000.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.