Informations rapides
18 November 2020
2020- n° 291
Slight rise in business births in October 2020 Enterprise births - October 2020

In October 2020, the number of business births for all enterprises rose slightly (+0.4% after +2.2% in September seasonally and working-day adjusted).

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In October 2020, the number of business births for all enterprises rose slightly (+0.4% after +2.2% in September seasonally and working-day adjusted).

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)
Total of entreprise start-ups
2009-01 34448
2009-02 40946
2009-03 48171
2009-04 49482
2009-05 52703
2009-06 50064
2009-07 49655
2009-08 49902
2009-09 49347
2009-10 50684
2009-11 52034
2009-12 54786
2010-01 54073
2010-02 55110
2010-03 57137
2010-04 52792
2010-05 52252
2010-06 45723
2010-07 50179
2010-08 50426
2010-09 49959
2010-10 52920
2010-11 50379
2010-12 45600
2011-01 44377
2011-02 45491
2011-03 44031
2011-04 45267
2011-05 44857
2011-06 44974
2011-07 47228
2011-08 45129
2011-09 46563
2011-10 44693
2011-11 49006
2011-12 46965
2012-01 46636
2012-02 45167
2012-03 46938
2012-04 45839
2012-05 45514
2012-06 46962
2012-07 46853
2012-08 47698
2012-09 45175
2012-10 46127
2012-11 43708
2012-12 44342
2013-01 44371
2013-02 45083
2013-03 45091
2013-04 44843
2013-05 46058
2013-06 44873
2013-07 44179
2013-08 44160
2013-09 45479
2013-10 45488
2013-11 45722
2013-12 45799
2014-01 46348
2014-02 45840
2014-03 45431
2014-04 46097
2014-05 45490
2014-06 45354
2014-07 46643
2014-08 46898
2014-09 45692
2014-10 45524
2014-11 46290
2014-12 46500
2015-01 42343
2015-02 43491
2015-03 44314
2015-04 43668
2015-05 43048
2015-06 44049
2015-07 43486
2015-08 43681
2015-09 44328
2015-10 44247
2015-11 44243
2015-12 44383
2016-01 45881
2016-02 45572
2016-03 45227
2016-04 46922
2016-05 47459
2016-06 45977
2016-07 45791
2016-08 45886
2016-09 47244
2016-10 44750
2016-11 46857
2016-12 45718
2017-01 46486
2017-02 46459
2017-03 47550
2017-04 47173
2017-05 47465
2017-06 48451
2017-07 51459
2017-08 50005
2017-09 49741
2017-10 50974
2017-11 54440
2017-12 54019
2018-01 54878
2018-02 55761
2018-03 56235
2018-04 56576
2018-05 59737
2018-06 58513
2018-07 56567
2018-08 58835
2018-09 58873
2018-10 61014
2018-11 58418
2018-12 59018
2019-01 66253
2019-02 66401
2019-03 67838
2019-04 66663
2019-05 66245
2019-06 68003
2019-07 67156
2019-08 67239
2019-09 69659
2019-10 69866
2019-11 72936
2019-12 73349
2020-01 72005
2020-02 70279
2020-03 52059
2020-04 34426
2020-05 54687
2020-06 75097
2020-07 81882
2020-08 81815
2020-09 83607
2020-10 83918
  • *Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

  • *Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source: INSEE, REE (Sirene)

Business set-ups by month (SA-WDA *)

Business set-ups by month (SA-WDA *)
Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 Oct-20
Total businesses set-ups 81,882 81,815 83,607 83,918
Variation [m-o-m] % 9.0 -0.1 2.2 0.4
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Rise in business births in real estate activities

In October 2020, the rise in business births was the highest in real estate activities (+4.7%), financial and insurance acitivities (+3.8%) and in accommodation and food service activities (+3.5%). For this latter sector, the increase is mainly driven by the births of sole proprietorships in fast food activities.

Increase in business births over the three last months

The raw number of business births totted up during the last three months (August to October) increased in comparison with the same months in 2019 (+19.9%). Transportation and storage activities was the sector that contributed the most to the overall rise (+12,100 business births, which comes to a contribution of +6.0points)*. Within it, the strongest increase was in business and other postal and mail activities (+12,600 business births over the last three months). This upsurge is mainly due to the development in home delivery.

The raw number of business births totted up during the last twelve months went up (+4.2%). Sole proprietorships’ births increased sharply (+6.5%) while companies’ births declined (–2.0%).

* The contribution of a sector to the overall variation is the variation observed in this sector, weighted by the share of this sector in the total number of births.

Cumulated business start-ups by type

Raw data
Cumulated business start-ups by type (Raw data)
Moving total % change * Moving total
over 3 months over 12 months January-October 2020 January-October 2019
Total 19.9 4.2 690,795 681,739
Companies 16.6 -2.0 175,308 181,881
Sole proprietorships 21.0 6.5 515,487 499,858
  • *Total of business start-ups during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Nearly three business births out of four are sole proprietorships registrations

In October 2020, in raw data, the share of sole proprietorships in the businesses births over the last twelve months rose slightly to 74.3%.

Business set-ups distribution by type

% over the twelve last months (raw data)
Business set-ups distribution by type (% over the twelve last months (raw data))
Aug.20 Sep.20 Oct.20
Companies 25.9 25.8 25.7
Sole proprietorships 74.1 74.2 74.3
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Revisions

The variation in the overall number of business births in September 2020 has been lowered by 0.1 points to +2.2% instead of +2.3%, due to the revision of raw data and the update of the SA-WDA parameters.

Trade and business support activities monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

Trade and business support activities monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)
Trade Business support activities
2009-01 8941 5965
2009-02 9694 7782
2009-03 10544 11132
2009-04 10848 11021
2009-05 11742 11504
2009-06 10890 11114
2009-07 11259 10937
2009-08 11018 10912
2009-09 11044 10966
2009-10 11229 11018
2009-11 11216 11425
2009-12 11722 11578
2010-01 11614 11707
2010-02 11635 11747
2010-03 11813 13345
2010-04 11012 11721
2010-05 11071 11557
2010-06 9904 9924
2010-07 10326 11274
2010-08 10695 10855
2010-09 10723 11007
2010-10 10789 11791
2010-11 10263 11379
2010-12 9502 9633
2011-01 9525 9472
2011-02 9788 9604
2011-03 9284 9389
2011-04 9804 9497
2011-05 9420 9550
2011-06 9620 9619
2011-07 9974 10446
2011-08 9377 9553
2011-09 10014 9667
2011-10 9222 9284
2011-11 9796 10976
2011-12 9752 9589
2012-01 9730 9662
2012-02 9198 9285
2012-03 9390 9888
2012-04 9255 9558
2012-05 9433 9563
2012-06 9551 9551
2012-07 9405 9687
2012-08 9666 10081
2012-09 9275 9331
2012-10 9510 9622
2012-11 9174 9226
2012-12 9339 9292
2013-01 9063 9216
2013-02 9107 9365
2013-03 9179 9334
2013-04 9152 9400
2013-05 9334 9460
2013-06 9201 9369
2013-07 9255 9229
2013-08 9184 9234
2013-09 9338 9474
2013-10 9180 9554
2013-11 9113 9723
2013-12 9035 9480
2014-01 9176 9721
2014-02 8971 9684
2014-03 9086 9620
2014-04 9137 9833
2014-05 9157 9714
2014-06 8762 9757
2014-07 9179 9951
2014-08 9132 10162
2014-09 8810 9963
2014-10 8961 9675
2014-11 8939 9680
2014-12 9021 9761
2015-01 8006 9142
2015-02 8265 9603
2015-03 8316 9608
2015-04 8256 9506
2015-05 8198 9478
2015-06 8315 9576
2015-07 8115 9656
2015-08 8095 9760
2015-09 8169 9644
2015-10 8084 9833
2015-11 8045 9782
2015-12 7851 10002
2016-01 8342 10155
2016-02 8286 10295
2016-03 8059 10168
2016-04 8308 10529
2016-05 8397 10686
2016-06 7979 10316
2016-07 7831 10368
2016-08 7913 10572
2016-09 8435 10695
2016-10 7489 10008
2016-11 8120 10819
2016-12 7794 10210
2017-01 7684 10663
2017-02 7674 10735
2017-03 7835 11037
2017-04 7908 10990
2017-05 7891 11365
2017-06 8072 11619
2017-07 8409 12633
2017-08 8592 11925
2017-09 8487 11831
2017-10 8848 11860
2017-11 8855 13399
2017-12 8986 12134
2018-01 8883 13293
2018-02 8878 13489
2018-03 8821 13644
2018-04 8667 13504
2018-05 9160 14252
2018-06 8957 14012
2018-07 8767 13761
2018-08 8953 13752
2018-09 9214 13727
2018-10 9360 14833
2018-11 9100 13435
2018-12 9093 13496
2019-01 9712 16446
2019-02 10062 15957
2019-03 10001 16227
2019-04 9712 16184
2019-05 9666 16195
2019-06 9709 16454
2019-07 9909 16807
2019-08 9948 15684
2019-09 10124 17040
2019-10 10054 17194
2019-11 10699 17439
2019-12 10315 16725
2020-01 10634 17289
2020-02 10445 15970
2020-03 6803 13642
2020-04 4792 9425
2020-05 8968 13471
2020-06 11382 17078
2020-07 13689 17405
2020-08 13335 17458
2020-09 13164 18174
2020-10 13346 18482
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

Trade and business support activities monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source: INSEE, REE (Sirene)

Construction and transportation business monthly set-ups (SA-WDA*)

Construction and transportation business monthly set-ups (SA-WDA*)
Construction Transportation and storage
2009-01 4744 621
2009-02 5946 673
2009-03 6240 675
2009-04 6569 715
2009-05 6851 755
2009-06 6927 727
2009-07 6985 712
2009-08 7025 718
2009-09 6988 672
2009-10 7337 735
2009-11 7566 677
2009-12 8071 732
2010-01 7947 844
2010-02 8571 811
2010-03 8353 881
2010-04 7914 797
2010-05 7566 810
2010-06 6454 742
2010-07 7461 775
2010-08 7374 764
2010-09 7485 814
2010-10 7904 816
2010-11 7421 779
2010-12 6750 772
2011-01 6420 779
2011-02 6797 763
2011-03 6592 783
2011-04 6774 806
2011-05 6732 765
2011-06 6559 773
2011-07 6790 777
2011-08 6927 895
2011-09 6880 794
2011-10 6865 804
2011-11 7129 771
2011-12 7078 767
2012-01 7099 771
2012-02 6917 777
2012-03 7216 798
2012-04 7124 792
2012-05 6633 796
2012-06 7334 864
2012-07 7350 895
2012-08 7377 891
2012-09 7108 789
2012-10 6963 836
2012-11 6557 807
2012-12 6568 815
2013-01 6513 835
2013-02 6591 904
2013-03 6703 893
2013-04 6635 797
2013-05 6937 963
2013-06 6588 930
2013-07 6473 923
2013-08 6412 891
2013-09 6453 975
2013-10 6635 938
2013-11 6650 959
2013-12 6933 1021
2014-01 6883 1083
2014-02 6955 1105
2014-03 6603 1039
2014-04 6634 1057
2014-05 6169 1030
2014-06 6352 1081
2014-07 6356 1196
2014-08 6201 1314
2014-09 6073 1166
2014-10 6044 1240
2014-11 6020 2262
2014-12 5925 1324
2015-01 5444 1090
2015-02 5353 1212
2015-03 5647 1905
2015-04 5359 1654
2015-05 5290 1422
2015-06 5360 1566
2015-07 5218 1650
2015-08 5205 1773
2015-09 5468 2061
2015-10 5182 2320
2015-11 5190 2332
2015-12 5112 2500
2016-01 5390 2381
2016-02 5237 2408
2016-03 5072 2471
2016-04 5434 2712
2016-05 5262 2932
2016-06 5137 2948
2016-07 5123 3009
2016-08 5039 2703
2016-09 5100 3165
2016-10 4847 3052
2016-11 4817 2919
2016-12 4894 2964
2017-01 4981 3175
2017-02 4927 3397
2017-03 4984 3363
2017-04 4963 3064
2017-05 4945 3198
2017-06 4896 3327
2017-07 5251 3517
2017-08 5014 3488
2017-09 5013 3218
2017-10 5348 3487
2017-11 5480 4347
2017-12 5531 4611
2018-01 5240 4745
2018-02 5575 4584
2018-03 5648 4945
2018-04 5614 5553
2018-05 5632 6329
2018-06 5670 6053
2018-07 5429 5959
2018-08 5719 6639
2018-09 5691 6350
2018-10 5733 6607
2018-11 5660 6794
2018-12 5921 6625
2019-01 6036 7058
2019-02 6101 7511
2019-03 6256 8070
2019-04 6188 7300
2019-05 6327 7162
2019-06 6752 7199
2019-07 6837 6389
2019-08 6873 6716
2019-09 7054 6775
2019-10 7030 6945
2019-11 7712 6190
2019-12 7120 6133
2020-01 7157 6398
2020-02 7236 6116
2020-03 4876 4632
2020-04 2974 2893
2020-05 4508 6405
2020-06 6905 11055
2020-07 7531 11236
2020-08 7903 11115
2020-09 7828 11223
2020-10 7984 11096
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

Construction and transportation business monthly set-ups (SA-WDA*)

  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source: INSEE, REE (Sirene)

Number of monthly business set-ups

SA-WDA *
Number of monthly business set-ups (SA-WDA *)
NA Aug.20 Sep.20 Oct.20
Total 81,815 83,607 83,918
Industry BE 3,715 3,638 3,760
Of which Manufacturing C 3,274 3,269 3,372
Construction FZ 7,903 7,828 7,984
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 28,608 28,720 28,929
Trade G 13,335 13,164 13,346
Transportation and storage H 11,115 11,223 11,096
Accommodation and food service activities I 4,158 4,333 4,487
Information and communication JZ 3,673 3,801 3,811
Financial and insurance activities KZ 1,894 1,952 2,026
Real estate activities LZ 3,467 3,598 3,768
Business support activities MN 17,458 18,174 18,482
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 7,468 8,208 7,476
Other services activities RS 7,628 7,688 7,683
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Fluctuation in the number of business set-ups

In %
Fluctuation in the number of business set-ups (In %)
NA Oct.20/Sep.20 Moving total % change**
SA-WDA * over 3 months over 12 months
Total 0.4 19.9 4.2
Industry BE 3.3 5.8 7.5
Of which Manufacturing C 3.2 7.3 11.3
Construction FZ 2.0 13.1 2.0
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 0.7 42.3 6.3
Trade G 1.4 31.8 7.0
Transportation and storage H -1.1 64.1 9.1
Accommodation and food service activities I 3.5 28.7 -2.1
Information and communication JZ 0.3 11.9 5.7
Financial and insurance activities KZ 3.8 14.5 6.3
Real estate activities LZ 4.7 30.6 10.9
Business support activities MN 1.7 8.3 0.3
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ -8.9 9.2 -1.6
Other services activities RS -0.1 14.3 9.9
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • ** Total of business start-ups during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

For further information

The business births data are build from the Register of Enterprises and Establishments (REE), from Sirene register information. The definition of creation adopted by INSEE is based on the concept defined by EUROSTAT, to harmonize and compare European data.

The appearance of a legal operating unit with no predecessor is considered to be a newly created enterprise by Eurostat. This concept of creation relies on new production resources. The business start-up statistics include applications for start-ups as micro-entrepreneurs, starting from the data relating to January 2009. Since this date, sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs are called conventional sole proprietorships and start-ups excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs are called conventional businesses.

Otherwise, as it was indicated in September, Insee has identified an error related to the sharing of births between conventional sole proprietorships and self-managed micro-entrepreneurs (without affecting the total number of births and the breakdown between companies and sole proprietorships). Actions have been taken to ensure proper monitoring of micro-entrepreneurs’ registrations from early 2021, with correction of time series since January 2015. Until then, the sharing of business births between micro-entrepreneurs and conventional sole proprietorships will no longer be disseminated. Learn more (in French).

Additional informations (time series) are available at the bottom of this page.

Next issue: 16 December 2020 at 8:45am

Documentation

Note méthodologique_anglaise_ Février 2018 (pdf,29 Ko)

Business start-ups

Aggregated classification - NA, 2008

Pour en savoir plus

The business births data are build from the Register of Enterprises and Establishments (REE), from Sirene register information. The definition of creation adopted by INSEE is based on the concept defined by EUROSTAT, to harmonize and compare European data.

The appearance of a legal operating unit with no predecessor is considered to be a newly created enterprise by Eurostat. This concept of creation relies on new production resources. The business start-up statistics include applications for start-ups as micro-entrepreneurs, starting from the data relating to January 2009. Since this date, sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs are called conventional sole proprietorships and start-ups excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs are called conventional businesses.

Otherwise, as it was indicated in September, Insee has identified an error related to the sharing of births between conventional sole proprietorships and self-managed micro-entrepreneurs (without affecting the total number of births and the breakdown between companies and sole proprietorships). Actions have been taken to ensure proper monitoring of micro-entrepreneurs’ registrations from early 2021, with correction of time series since January 2015. Until then, the sharing of business births between micro-entrepreneurs and conventional sole proprietorships will no longer be disseminated. Learn more (in French).

Additional informations (time series) are available at the bottom of this page.

Next issue: 16 December 2020 at 8:45am

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