Informations rapides
26 August 2020
2020- n° 208
Rise in business births in July 2020 Enterprise births - July 2020

In July 2020, the number of business births for all enterprises kept on rebounding (+9% after +38.1% in June seasonally and working-day adjusted). Conventional businesses start-ups went up sharply again (+13.4% after +43.5%) while micro-entrepreneurs' registrations rose slightlier (+4.6% after +33.2%).

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In July 2020, the number of business births for all enterprises kept on rebounding (+9% after +38.1% in June seasonally and working-day adjusted). Conventional businesses start-ups went up sharply again (+13.4% after +43.5%) while micro-entrepreneurs' registrations rose slightlier (+4.6% after +33.2%).

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)
Total of entreprise start-ups Conventional businesses
2009-01 34392 22539
2009-02 41024 22774
2009-03 48138 21690
2009-04 49483 21276
2009-05 52717 21820
2009-06 50053 21041
2009-07 49708 20610
2009-08 49888 20887
2009-09 49316 21030
2009-10 50704 21290
2009-11 51981 22292
2009-12 54738 22756
2010-01 53983 22176
2010-02 55182 21083
2010-03 57138 21239
2010-04 52812 21256
2010-05 52288 21831
2010-06 45745 22154
2010-07 50161 21593
2010-08 50397 22346
2010-09 49958 22062
2010-10 52921 22083
2010-11 50341 21954
2010-12 45640 21394
2011-01 44286 21346
2011-02 45550 21653
2011-03 44049 21203
2011-04 45292 21527
2011-05 44910 21388
2011-06 44988 20443
2011-07 47212 21933
2011-08 45125 21391
2011-09 46576 21789
2011-10 44651 20589
2011-11 48982 22672
2011-12 46998 21854
2012-01 46565 20860
2012-02 45242 20279
2012-03 46972 20628
2012-04 45822 19977
2012-05 45606 19427
2012-06 46984 20168
2012-07 46788 20196
2012-08 47700 20441
2012-09 45151 19750
2012-10 46099 20410
2012-11 43735 19819
2012-12 44334 20578
2013-01 44366 21450
2013-02 45114 22021
2013-03 45111 21957
2013-04 44827 21473
2013-05 46102 22353
2013-06 44854 21834
2013-07 44157 21634
2013-08 44137 21736
2013-09 45454 22193
2013-10 45480 22738
2013-11 45732 22803
2013-12 45761 22549
2014-01 46367 22560
2014-02 45864 22544
2014-03 45414 22349
2014-04 46109 22753
2014-05 45534 22208
2014-06 45326 22074
2014-07 46627 22264
2014-08 46820 22616
2014-09 45660 21452
2014-10 45556 21967
2014-11 46332 22435
2014-12 46514 23025
2015-01 42351 23339
2015-02 43506 24143
2015-03 44297 24541
2015-04 43689 24866
2015-05 43036 24718
2015-06 44021 25341
2015-07 43490 25402
2015-08 43568 25305
2015-09 44329 26070
2015-10 44248 25819
2015-11 44328 26259
2015-12 44390 26123
2016-01 45855 27577
2016-02 45576 26776
2016-03 45245 26575
2016-04 46940 27210
2016-05 47472 27803
2016-06 45974 27480
2016-07 45749 27995
2016-08 45770 28007
2016-09 47269 29055
2016-10 44731 26816
2016-11 47029 28387
2016-12 45750 27654
2017-01 46481 27859
2017-02 46450 27821
2017-03 47561 28520
2017-04 47160 28501
2017-05 47486 28618
2017-06 48471 28968
2017-07 51328 29468
2017-08 49830 29564
2017-09 49811 29564
2017-10 51042 30725
2017-11 54674 30672
2017-12 54060 31755
2018-01 54917 30941
2018-02 55718 31378
2018-03 56184 31454
2018-04 56497 31467
2018-05 59725 33475
2018-06 58553 32610
2018-07 56408 31209
2018-08 58644 32231
2018-09 59046 32497
2018-10 61231 32553
2018-11 58686 32410
2018-12 59030 32791
2019-01 66313 33719
2019-02 66286 34347
2019-03 67714 35204
2019-04 66474 34473
2019-05 66200 34462
2019-06 68053 35743
2019-07 66967 35176
2019-08 67064 36064
2019-09 69984 36930
2019-10 70257 37562
2019-11 73208 42595
2019-12 73326 36601
2020-01 72050 38802
2020-02 70100 39154
2020-03 51894 27372
2020-04 34133 15720
2020-05 54552 25835
2020-06 75331 37078
2020-07 82086 42058
  • * 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 *)
Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20
Total businesses set-ups 34,133 54,552 75,331 82,086
Variation [m-o-m] % -34.2 59.8 38.1 9.0
Conventional businesses 15,720 25,835 37,078 42,058
Variation [m-o-m] % -42.6 64.3 43.5 13.4
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 18,413 28,717 38,253 40,028
Variation [m-o-m] % -24.9 56.0 33.2 4.6
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source: INSEE, REE (SIRENE)

Upsurge in business births in all economic activities

In July 2020, the number of business births went up sharply in all economic activities. The upsurge is the highest in accommodation and food service activities (+42.2%), especially in fast food services. Household services is the second most growing over all economic activities (+15.9%).

Increase in business births over the three last months

The raw number of business births totted up during the last three months (May to July) increased in comparison with the same months in 2019 (+4.6%). Transportation and storage activities was the sector that contributed the most to the overall increase (+7 500 business births, which comes to a contribution of +3.8points)*. Within it, the strongest increase was in business and other postal and mail activities (+8 800 business births over the last three months), especially in home delivery.

The raw number of business births totted up during the last twelve months went up (+2.9%).

* 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-July 2020 January-July 2019
Total 4.6 2.9 449,330 479,940
Companies -6.2 -4.0 117,992 132,657
Conventional sole proprietorships 5.2 7.6 119,160 122,560
Self-mamaged micro-entrepreneurs 10.8 4.4 212,180 224,720
  • *Total of business start-ups during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier
  • Source: INSEE, REE (SIRENE)

Less than a half of business births are self-managed micro-entrepreneurs' registrations

In July 2020, in raw data, the share of micro–entrepreneurs' registrations in the businesses births over the last twelve months rose slightly to 47.6%.

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))
May.20 Jun.20 Jul.20
Companies 26.5 26.2 26.0
Sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 26.3 26.3 26.4
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 47.2 47.5 47.6
  • Source: INSEE, REE (SIRENE)

Revisions

The variation in the overall number of business births in June 2020 has been decreased by 0.1 points to +38.1% instead of +38.2%, 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 8945 5973
2009-02 9696 7830
2009-03 10539 11104
2009-04 10848 11015
2009-05 11734 11482
2009-06 10886 11114
2009-07 11263 10939
2009-08 11014 10902
2009-09 11035 10966
2009-10 11239 11027
2009-11 11222 11398
2009-12 11718 11573
2010-01 11615 11704
2010-02 11638 11787
2010-03 11806 13329
2010-04 11018 11725
2010-05 11069 11551
2010-06 9901 9934
2010-07 10319 11266
2010-08 10686 10853
2010-09 10727 11006
2010-10 10793 11796
2010-11 10256 11364
2010-12 9513 9653
2011-01 9527 9469
2011-02 9789 9632
2011-03 9283 9389
2011-04 9806 9502
2011-05 9420 9554
2011-06 9619 9621
2011-07 9958 10439
2011-08 9370 9560
2011-09 10021 9674
2011-10 9222 9271
2011-11 9796 10946
2011-12 9760 9603
2012-01 9725 9666
2012-02 9200 9308
2012-03 9398 9893
2012-04 9256 9549
2012-05 9443 9561
2012-06 9553 9558
2012-07 9391 9678
2012-08 9671 10083
2012-09 9274 9317
2012-10 9504 9624
2012-11 9179 9224
2012-12 9344 9278
2013-01 9068 9222
2013-02 9108 9376
2013-03 9180 9343
2013-04 9151 9402
2013-05 9338 9467
2013-06 9197 9365
2013-07 9246 9229
2013-08 9183 9214
2013-09 9341 9458
2013-10 9177 9560
2013-11 9112 9721
2013-12 9029 9478
2014-01 9184 9730
2014-02 8972 9692
2014-03 9085 9614
2014-04 9138 9847
2014-05 9152 9727
2014-06 8757 9753
2014-07 9173 9959
2014-08 9129 10106
2014-09 8808 9952
2014-10 8967 9685
2014-11 8944 9686
2014-12 9010 9772
2015-01 8005 9149
2015-02 8264 9610
2015-03 8314 9609
2015-04 8259 9520
2015-05 8193 9477
2015-06 8313 9577
2015-07 8116 9660
2015-08 8104 9665
2015-09 8175 9643
2015-10 8083 9837
2015-11 8050 9807
2015-12 7845 10012
2016-01 8335 10147
2016-02 8281 10299
2016-03 8056 10186
2016-04 8305 10548
2016-05 8397 10713
2016-06 7985 10319
2016-07 7833 10367
2016-08 7931 10446
2016-09 8449 10700
2016-10 7492 10000
2016-11 8120 10865
2016-12 7781 10236
2017-01 7668 10681
2017-02 7653 10749
2017-03 7823 11061
2017-04 7904 10995
2017-05 7895 11394
2017-06 8114 11628
2017-07 8407 12609
2017-08 8632 11714
2017-09 8493 11855
2017-10 8858 11891
2017-11 8857 13467
2017-12 8960 12173
2018-01 8844 13348
2018-02 8828 13499
2018-03 8789 13661
2018-04 8677 13496
2018-05 9180 14253
2018-06 9055 14002
2018-07 8763 13732
2018-08 9009 13478
2018-09 9213 13789
2018-10 9372 14923
2018-11 9095 13532
2018-12 9059 13527
2019-01 9653 16530
2019-02 9981 15941
2019-03 9953 16230
2019-04 9734 16169
2019-05 9705 16186
2019-06 9878 16413
2019-07 9881 16732
2019-08 10002 15353
2019-09 10111 17170
2019-10 10067 17364
2019-11 10685 17552
2019-12 10266 16790
2020-01 10555 17386
2020-02 10338 15919
2020-03 6763 13621
2020-04 4823 9404
2020-05 9019 13429
2020-06 11654 17050
2020-07 13736 17370
  • * 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 4739 621
2009-02 5947 673
2009-03 6237 675
2009-04 6575 715
2009-05 6892 756
2009-06 6916 727
2009-07 7003 711
2009-08 7025 718
2009-09 6978 673
2009-10 7333 735
2009-11 7544 677
2009-12 8053 732
2010-01 7933 844
2010-02 8570 811
2010-03 8359 881
2010-04 7914 797
2010-05 7607 810
2010-06 6453 742
2010-07 7453 775
2010-08 7364 765
2010-09 7488 814
2010-10 7894 816
2010-11 7394 780
2010-12 6749 772
2011-01 6413 779
2011-02 6796 763
2011-03 6591 783
2011-04 6775 806
2011-05 6783 765
2011-06 6555 773
2011-07 6786 777
2011-08 6919 895
2011-09 6877 794
2011-10 6859 804
2011-11 7124 771
2011-12 7080 767
2012-01 7087 771
2012-02 6926 777
2012-03 7221 798
2012-04 7119 792
2012-05 6703 796
2012-06 7336 864
2012-07 7326 896
2012-08 7372 891
2012-09 7104 789
2012-10 6952 836
2012-11 6549 807
2012-12 6576 814
2013-01 6520 835
2013-02 6591 904
2013-03 6702 893
2013-04 6623 797
2013-05 6970 963
2013-06 6582 930
2013-07 6470 923
2013-08 6409 891
2013-09 6454 975
2013-10 6625 938
2013-11 6640 960
2013-12 6913 1021
2014-01 6886 1083
2014-02 6959 1105
2014-03 6606 1038
2014-04 6624 1057
2014-05 6205 1030
2014-06 6343 1081
2014-07 6343 1196
2014-08 6193 1315
2014-09 6069 1166
2014-10 6046 1239
2014-11 6021 2261
2014-12 5926 1324
2015-01 5444 1090
2015-02 5356 1212
2015-03 5644 1905
2015-04 5357 1654
2015-05 5303 1422
2015-06 5356 1566
2015-07 5224 1649
2015-08 5200 1773
2015-09 5469 2062
2015-10 5181 2318
2015-11 5188 2333
2015-12 5109 2499
2016-01 5384 2381
2016-02 5246 2407
2016-03 5070 2470
2016-04 5435 2714
2016-05 5267 2933
2016-06 5141 2948
2016-07 5119 3007
2016-08 5030 2706
2016-09 5101 3168
2016-10 4848 3051
2016-11 4820 2920
2016-12 4892 2962
2017-01 4977 3175
2017-02 4931 3396
2017-03 4991 3358
2017-04 4957 3067
2017-05 4949 3200
2017-06 4894 3327
2017-07 5251 3512
2017-08 5006 3497
2017-09 5012 3226
2017-10 5344 3492
2017-11 5480 4347
2017-12 5523 4606
2018-01 5237 4743
2018-02 5583 4582
2018-03 5653 4931
2018-04 5608 5557
2018-05 5647 6329
2018-06 5676 6050
2018-07 5433 5945
2018-08 5702 6670
2018-09 5686 6384
2018-10 5722 6626
2018-11 5664 6789
2018-12 5922 6610
2019-01 6036 7045
2019-02 6116 7501
2019-03 6262 8039
2019-04 6170 7302
2019-05 6347 7164
2019-06 6753 7196
2019-07 6847 6376
2019-08 6871 6764
2019-09 7041 6839
2019-10 7005 6989
2019-11 7713 6181
2019-12 7104 6116
2020-01 7149 6382
2020-02 7262 6103
2020-03 4877 4610
2020-04 2967 2892
2020-05 4533 6411
2020-06 6914 11083
2020-07 7561 11260
  • * 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 (incl. self-managed micro-entrepreneurs)

SA-WDA *
Number of monthly business set-ups (incl. self-managed micro-entrepreneurs) (SA-WDA *)
NA May.20 Jun.20 Jul.20
Total 54,552 75,331 82,086
Industry BE 2,691 3,336 3,615
Of which Manufacturing C 2,417 2,948 3,242
Construction FZ 4,533 6,914 7,561
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 17,141 25,670 29,167
Trade G 9,019 11,654 13,736
Transportation and storage H 6,411 11,083 11,260
Accommodation and food service activities I 1,710 2,932 4,171
Information and communication JZ 3,082 3,731 3,725
Financial and insurance activities KZ 1,379 1,746 1,808
Real estate activities LZ 2,404 3,060 3,446
Business support activities MN 13,429 17,050 17,370
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 5,076 6,878 7,347
Other services activities RS 4,817 6,945 8,048
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source: INSEE, REE (SIRENE)

Fluctuation in the number of business set-ups (incl. self-managed micro-entrepreneurs)

In %
Fluctuation in the number of business set-ups (incl. self-managed micro-entrepreneurs) (In %)
NA Jul.20/Jun.20 Moving total % change**
SA-WDA * over 3 months over 12 months
Total 9.0 4.6 2.9
Industry BE 8.4 1.0 15.9
Of which Manufacturing C 10.0 4.8 19.2
Construction FZ 9.3 -4.7 3.7
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 13.6 18.3 -1.4
Trade G 17.9 15.3 1.7
Transportation and storage H 1.6 36.9 -4.2
Accommodation and food service activities I 42.2 -8.8 -4.8
Information and communication JZ -0.2 4.5 5.6
Financial and insurance activities KZ 3.5 -1.4 6.3
Real estate activities LZ 12.6 12.9 7.4
Business support activities MN 1.9 -3.9 2.4
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 6.8 -5.8 -2.0
Other services activities RS 15.9 1.8 12.4
  • * 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.

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

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Business start-ups

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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.

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