Press release No. 061 of 14 February 2022
- Start-ups of larger businesses up 3.5% compared with the pre-crisis year 2019
- Number of small business start-ups down 2.8% on a year earlier and down 19.5% on 2019, the year before the crisis
- Complete business shutdowns declined by 1.8% on the previous year and by 14.8% on the pre-crisis year 2019
WIESBADEN - In 2021, just over 126,900 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) reports that this was 8.4% more than in 2020, but also 3.5% more than in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 crisis.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Business notifications (52311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
