Press release No. 109 of 29 March 2017
WIESBADEN – In the year 2016, roughly 126,000 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 1.2% compared with the year 2015.
The number of small business start-ups fell by 10.1% to roughly 178,000.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.