Informations rapides
15 January 2019
2019- n° 6
Slight rise in business start-ups in December 2018 Enterprise births - December 2018

In December 2018, the number of business births for all enterprises increased slightly (+0.3% after −5.6% in November, seasonally and working-day adjusted). Conventional businesses start-ups dropped (−1.1% after −0.3%) while micro-entrepreneurs' registrations rebounded (+2.1% after −11.4%).

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In December 2018, the number of business births for all enterprises increased slightly (+0.3% after −5.6% in November, seasonally and working-day adjusted). Conventional businesses start-ups dropped (−1.1% after −0.3%) while micro-entrepreneurs' registrations rebounded (+2.1% after −11.4%).

Business start-ups (SA-WDA*)

Business start-ups (SA-WDA*)
Total of entreprise start-ups Conventional businesses
2008-01 29193 29193
2008-02 28728 28728
2008-03 28742 28742
2008-04 28378 28378
2008-05 27798 27798
2008-06 28140 28140
2008-07 28225 28225
2008-08 27964 27964
2008-09 27049 27049
2008-10 26232 26232
2008-11 24872 24872
2008-12 23625 23625
2009-01 34380 22563
2009-02 41038 22761
2009-03 48080 21631
2009-04 49521 21309
2009-05 52683 21844
2009-06 50050 21006
2009-07 49834 20664
2009-08 49893 20867
2009-09 49350 21072
2009-10 50681 21294
2009-11 51866 22231
2009-12 54722 22752
2010-01 53957 22215
2010-02 55195 21066
2010-03 57134 21218
2010-04 52818 21240
2010-05 52285 21815
2010-06 45769 22143
2010-07 50135 21578
2010-08 50323 22285
2010-09 50023 22100
2010-10 52914 22103
2010-11 50269 21948
2010-12 45704 21381
2011-01 44252 21332
2011-02 45548 21633
2011-03 44057 21199
2011-04 45320 21558
2011-05 44799 21311
2011-06 45105 20500
2011-07 47280 22012
2011-08 45131 21398
2011-09 46586 21763
2011-10 44600 20583
2011-11 49013 22724
2011-12 47012 21857
2012-01 46481 20817
2012-02 45320 20327
2012-03 47007 20648
2012-04 45803 19958
2012-05 45753 19528
2012-06 47020 20173
2012-07 46718 20140
2012-08 47715 20418
2012-09 45171 19775
2012-10 46026 20372
2012-11 43730 19809
2012-12 44363 20616
2013-01 44455 21504
2013-02 45126 22014
2013-03 45134 21991
2013-04 44743 21412
2013-05 46104 22332
2013-06 44884 21858
2013-07 44119 21623
2013-08 44143 21751
2013-09 45438 22159
2013-10 45444 22720
2013-11 45770 22878
2013-12 45599 22436
2014-01 46456 22579
2014-02 45897 22551
2014-03 45376 22355
2014-04 46099 22757
2014-05 45534 22242
2014-06 45356 22085
2014-07 46671 22289
2014-08 46800 22629
2014-09 45585 21378
2014-10 45606 21993
2014-11 46383 22506
2014-12 46444 22980
2015-01 42490 23425
2015-02 43550 24177
2015-03 44179 24470
2015-04 43710 24874
2015-05 43033 24777
2015-06 43945 25272
2015-07 43622 25464
2015-08 43496 25238
2015-09 44327 26055
2015-10 44304 25849
2015-11 44188 26222
2015-12 44325 26036
2016-01 46104 27724
2016-02 45666 26855
2016-03 45277 26656
2016-04 46811 27126
2016-05 47213 27655
2016-06 46079 27534
2016-07 45806 28066
2016-08 45752 27959
2016-09 47279 28997
2016-10 44836 26867
2016-11 46967 28515
2016-12 45666 27489
2017-01 46782 27925
2017-02 46560 27947
2017-03 47594 28658
2017-04 46944 28414
2017-05 47146 28455
2017-06 48542 29011
2017-07 51465 29577
2017-08 49994 29547
2017-09 49936 29577
2017-10 51232 30746
2017-11 54394 30732
2017-12 53799 31463
2018-01 55583 31162
2018-02 55811 31570
2018-03 56080 31647
2018-04 55985 31195
2018-05 59292 33272
2018-06 58616 32627
2018-07 56548 31305
2018-08 58973 32161
2018-09 59312 32544
2018-10 61767 32712
2018-11 58329 32598
2018-12 58501 32232
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

Business start-ups (SA-WDA*)

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

Figure2 – Business set-ups by month (SA-WDA *)

Business set-ups by month (SA-WDA *)
Sep-18 Oct-18 Nov-18 Dec-18
Total businesses set-ups 59,312 61,767 58,329 58,501
Variation [m-o-m] % 0.6 4.1 -5.6 0.3
Conventional businesses 32,544 32,712 32,598 32,232
Variation [m-o-m] % 1.2 0.5 -0.3 -1.1
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 26,768 29,055 25,731 26,269
Variation [m-o-m] % -0.2 8.5 -11.4 2.1
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

+16.9% over the twelve last months

The raw number of business start-ups totted up during the last twelve months slowed down slightly (+16.9% after +17.3% in November and +18.5% in October). All the types of business start-ups increased: micro-entrepreneurs' registrations (+27.5%), conventional sole proprietorship start-ups (+20.0%) and, to a lesser extent, company births (+1.6%).

Upsurge of business setp-ups in transportation and storage over the three last months

The raw number of business start-ups totted up during the last three months went up sharply (+13.5% over one year). The sector “Transportation and storage” was the one that contributed the most to this rise (rise by +8,000 business start-ups, which comes to a contribution of 6.0 points)1. Over the last three months and compared to the same months a year earlier, the number of creators grew by 8,000 in this sector (of which +7,200 in other postal and mail activities including home delivery).

1, 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.

Figure3 – 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 over year 2018 over year 2017
Total 13.5 16.9 691,283 591,267
Companies 4.5 1.6 201,087 197,899
Conventional sole proprietorships 8.8 20.0 181,885 151,582
Self-mamaged micro-entrepreneurs 23.1 27.5 308,311 241,786
  • *Total of business start-ups during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier
  • Source : INSEE, REE(SIRENE)

More than two business set-ups out of five are self-managed micro-entrepreneurs' registrations

In December 2018, the share of micro–entrepreneurs' registrations in the businesses set up over the last twelve months grew for the fourteenth month in a row and reached 44.6%.

Figure4 – 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))
Oct-18 Nov-18 Dec-18
Companies 29.2 29.2 29.1
Sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 26.4 26.4 26.3
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 44.3 44.4 44.6
  • Source : Insee, REE (issu de SIRENE)

Revisions

The variation in the overall number of business births in November 2018 has been lowered by 0.3 points to −5.6% due to the revision of raw data and the update of the SA-WDA parameters.

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

Trade and business support activities start-ups (SA-WDA*)
Trade Business support activities
2008-01 6741 5281
2008-02 6804 5046
2008-03 6637 5129
2008-04 6560 5053
2008-05 6418 4960
2008-06 6536 5042
2008-07 6508 5193
2008-08 6449 5149
2008-09 6216 4984
2008-10 6081 4818
2008-11 5859 4633
2008-12 5256 4342
2009-01 8942 5973
2009-02 9702 7834
2009-03 10538 11088
2009-04 10841 11034
2009-05 11672 11460
2009-06 10955 11106
2009-07 11253 10965
2009-08 11025 10894
2009-09 11036 11000
2009-10 11215 11030
2009-11 11199 11387
2009-12 11713 11568
2010-01 11609 11700
2010-02 11646 11791
2010-03 11785 13336
2010-04 11033 11728
2010-05 11080 11534
2010-06 9940 9947
2010-07 10316 11246
2010-08 10691 10844
2010-09 10711 11040
2010-10 10791 11783
2010-11 10272 11350
2010-12 9542 9661
2011-01 9514 9470
2011-02 9795 9635
2011-03 9287 9404
2011-04 9808 9494
2011-05 9353 9556
2011-06 9701 9630
2011-07 9976 10414
2011-08 9389 9568
2011-09 10023 9679
2011-10 9184 9261
2011-11 9773 10975
2011-12 9754 9597
2012-01 9712 9656
2012-02 9205 9329
2012-03 9395 9898
2012-04 9241 9545
2012-05 9437 9583
2012-06 9591 9555
2012-07 9399 9662
2012-08 9691 10087
2012-09 9264 9316
2012-10 9476 9620
2012-11 9174 9233
2012-12 9316 9278
2013-01 9063 9245
2013-02 9131 9377
2013-03 9191 9339
2013-04 9134 9386
2013-05 9363 9450
2013-06 9228 9357
2013-07 9218 9226
2013-08 9184 9193
2013-09 9315 9474
2013-10 9171 9559
2013-11 9123 9724
2013-12 9029 9450
2014-01 9196 9744
2014-02 9005 9696
2014-03 9055 9620
2014-04 9143 9841
2014-05 9131 9705
2014-06 8795 9743
2014-07 9229 9941
2014-08 9115 10068
2014-09 8773 9966
2014-10 8964 9691
2014-11 8950 9717
2014-12 8995 9798
2015-01 8016 9164
2015-02 8294 9612
2015-03 8309 9603
2015-04 8250 9528
2015-05 8188 9433
2015-06 8303 9563
2015-07 8141 9662
2015-08 8071 9623
2015-09 8153 9661
2015-10 8082 9834
2015-11 8044 9834
2015-12 7837 10075
2016-01 8367 10194
2016-02 8314 10310
2016-03 8100 10195
2016-04 8263 10509
2016-05 8343 10611
2016-06 7983 10332
2016-07 7870 10309
2016-08 7908 10416
2016-09 8412 10720
2016-10 7478 10015
2016-11 8129 10950
2016-12 7762 10318
2017-01 7704 10784
2017-02 7727 10749
2017-03 7862 11052
2017-04 7868 10918
2017-05 7832 11253
2017-06 8131 11559
2017-07 8441 12574
2017-08 8595 11712
2017-09 8459 11897
2017-10 8836 11969
2017-11 8846 13550
2017-12 8949 12223
2018-01 8941 13550
2018-02 8943 13483
2018-03 8850 13589
2018-04 8589 13379
2018-05 9072 14086
2018-06 9057 13873
2018-07 8823 13688
2018-08 8982 13445
2018-09 9184 13880
2018-10 9333 15120
2018-11 9071 13622
2018-12 8985 13593
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

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

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

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

Construction and transportation business set-ups (SA-WDA*)
Construction Transportation and storage
2008-01 5312 672
2008-02 5020 649
2008-03 4963 652
2008-04 4897 626
2008-05 4671 636
2008-06 4657 626
2008-07 4690 633
2008-08 4556 644
2008-09 4434 651
2008-10 4183 600
2008-11 3703 608
2008-12 3759 578
2009-01 4750 622
2009-02 5935 673
2009-03 6224 673
2009-04 6584 716
2009-05 6928 753
2009-06 6900 726
2009-07 7024 714
2009-08 7023 718
2009-09 6993 671
2009-10 7319 737
2009-11 7488 677
2009-12 8054 731
2010-01 7950 845
2010-02 8544 811
2010-03 8378 879
2010-04 7897 798
2010-05 7616 808
2010-06 6460 741
2010-07 7422 774
2010-08 7350 762
2010-09 7495 815
2010-10 7902 818
2010-11 7383 779
2010-12 6749 773
2011-01 6409 779
2011-02 6778 764
2011-03 6587 782
2011-04 6795 808
2011-05 6782 758
2011-06 6571 776
2011-07 6823 779
2011-08 6937 894
2011-09 6862 793
2011-10 6860 805
2011-11 7133 773
2011-12 7088 768
2012-01 7070 768
2012-02 6931 778
2012-03 7217 800
2012-04 7113 792
2012-05 6763 801
2012-06 7344 864
2012-07 7292 891
2012-08 7356 891
2012-09 7123 791
2012-10 6957 834
2012-11 6544 806
2012-12 6602 818
2013-01 6531 835
2013-02 6575 906
2013-03 6700 896
2013-04 6607 795
2013-05 6965 966
2013-06 6591 931
2013-07 6479 919
2013-08 6426 890
2013-09 6459 974
2013-10 6622 937
2013-11 6654 962
2013-12 6876 1017
2014-01 6861 1081
2014-02 6946 1111
2014-03 6582 1040
2014-04 6636 1055
2014-05 6253 1034
2014-06 6347 1082
2014-07 6351 1195
2014-08 6217 1313
2014-09 6072 1159
2014-10 6061 1239
2014-11 6019 2267
2014-12 5951 1320
2015-01 5449 1090
2015-02 5351 1222
2015-03 5585 1905
2015-04 5358 1652
2015-05 5329 1434
2015-06 5352 1559
2015-07 5253 1653
2015-08 5213 1764
2015-09 5507 2050
2015-10 5194 2316
2015-11 5151 2324
2015-12 5110 2482
2016-01 5390 2391
2016-02 5223 2436
2016-03 5034 2493
2016-04 5411 2697
2016-05 5255 2935
2016-06 5174 2953
2016-07 5171 2997
2016-08 5083 2685
2016-09 5126 3145
2016-10 4871 3053
2016-11 4828 2908
2016-12 4891 2924
2017-01 4957 3200
2017-02 4902 3466
2017-03 4950 3401
2017-04 4911 3052
2017-05 4934 3201
2017-06 4929 3346
2017-07 5346 3471
2017-08 5084 3468
2017-09 5072 3204
2017-10 5372 3490
2017-11 5453 4292
2017-12 5510 4529
2018-01 5233 4841
2018-02 5520 4716
2018-03 5570 5018
2018-04 5494 5500
2018-05 5614 6350
2018-06 5749 6090
2018-07 5582 5800
2018-08 5828 6609
2018-09 5780 6333
2018-10 5800 6639
2018-11 5687 6673
2018-12 5854 6464
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

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

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

Figure7 – 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 Oct-18 Nov-18 Dec-18
Total 61.767 58.329 58.501
Industry BE 2.486 2.451 2.443
Of which Manufacturing C 2.243 2.138 2.201
Construction FZ 5.8 5.687 5.854
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 18.883 18.629 18.357
Trade G 9.333 9.071 8.985
Transportation and storage H 6.639 6.673 6.464
Accommodation and food service activities I 2.911 2.885 2.908
Information and communication JZ 3.045 2.938 2.904
Financial and insurance activities KZ 1.505 1.522 1.509
Real estate activities LZ 2.402 2.341 2.324
Business support activities MN 15.12 13.622 13.593
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 6.885 6.101 6.282
Other services activities RS 5.642 5.038 5.235
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Figure8 – 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 Dec. 18 / Nov. 18 Moving total % change**
SA-WDA * over 3 months over 12 months
Total 0.3 13.5 16.9
Industry BE -0.3 12.7 13.8
Of which Manufacturing C 2.9 12.5 15.3
Construction FZ 2.9 8.1 10.4
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI -1.5 21.6 23.3
Trade G -1.0 3.9 8.8
Transportation and storage H -3.1 63.5 68.1
Accommodation and food service activities I 0.8 11.2 8.8
Information and communication JZ -1.1 13.4 16.5
Financial and insurance activities KZ -0.9 4.7 4.7
Real estate activities LZ -0.7 17.9 19.1
Business support activities MN -0.2 12.5 17.8
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 3.0 2.9 6.7
Other services activities RS 3.9 12.5 20.1
  • * 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 more information - Source and definitions

The business start-ups 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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