Press Number of larger businesses started between January and September 2020 down 6.4% - special effects due to the corona pandemic

Press release No. 470 of 27 November 2020

WIESBADEN – Between January and September 2020, roughly 88,200 businesses were started in Germany whose legal form and number of employees suggest that they have greater economic importance. Based on the evaluation of business registrations, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a 6.4% decline compared with the same period a year earlier.

Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0002) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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