Press release No. 458 of 15 December 2017
WIESBADEN – From January to September 2017, roughly 96,000 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 the equal level (+ 0.0%) compared with the same period of 2016.
The number of small business start-ups fell by 2.4% to roughly 136,000.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.