Press release No. 215 of 15 June 2018
WIESBADEN – In the first quarter of 2018, some 33,900 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 a decrease of 7.6% compared with the same period of the previous year.
In the same period of 2018 the number of small business start-ups fell by 4.1% to roughly 46,900.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
