Press release No. 203 of 16 June 2017
WIESBADEN – In the first quarter of 2017, some 37,000 businesses were started whose legal form and number of employees suggest some economic importance. Based on an evaluation of business notifications, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 6.5% compared with the same period of the previous year.
In the same period of 2017 some 49,000 small businesses were founded. Hence, the number of start-ups of small businesses decreased 1.4% on the same period a year earlier.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.