Press release No. 105 of 21 March 2018
WIESBADEN – In the year 2017, roughly 125,400 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 a decrease of 0.6% compared with the year 2016.
The number of small business start-ups fell by 1.9% to roughly 175,000.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
