Press release No. 118 of 28 March 2019
WIESBADEN – In 2018, nearly 122,700 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 2.2% decline compared with 2017.
The number of small business start-ups dropped by 3.4% year on year to nearly 169,100 in 2018. In contrast to that, the number of newly established part-time businesses rose slightly by 0.6% to roughly 250,700.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0002) in the GENESIS-Online database.
