Press release No. 354 of 12 September 2019
WIESBADEN – In the first half of 2019, roughly 64,000 businesses were started in Germany 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 0.7% increase compared with the first half of 2018.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0002) in the GENESIS-Online database.