Informations rapides
16 September 2020
2020- n° 234
Slight rise in business births in August 2020 Enterprise births - August 2020

In August 2020, the number of business births for all enterprises rose slightly (+0.4% after +9.1% in July seasonally and working-day adjusted).

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In August 2020, the number of business births for all enterprises rose slightly (+0.4% after +9.1% in July seasonally and working-day adjusted).

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)
Total of entreprise start-ups
2009-01 34391
2009-02 41008
2009-03 48159
2009-04 49482
2009-05 52695
2009-06 50082
2009-07 49663
2009-08 49894
2009-09 49333
2009-10 50689
2009-11 52019
2009-12 54769
2010-01 54004
2010-02 55168
2010-03 57131
2010-04 52813
2010-05 52258
2010-06 45745
2010-07 50184
2010-08 50423
2010-09 49943
2010-10 52920
2010-11 50386
2010-12 45612
2011-01 44300
2011-02 45540
2011-03 44048
2011-04 45290
2011-05 44864
2011-06 44988
2011-07 47223
2011-08 45132
2011-09 46565
2011-10 44665
2011-11 48990
2011-12 46975
2012-01 46598
2012-02 45210
2012-03 46955
2012-04 45836
2012-05 45512
2012-06 46975
2012-07 46833
2012-08 47692
2012-09 45162
2012-10 46114
2012-11 43731
2012-12 44317
2013-01 44354
2013-02 45110
2013-03 45107
2013-04 44847
2013-05 46069
2013-06 44869
2013-07 44159
2013-08 44139
2013-09 45457
2013-10 45495
2013-11 45744
2013-12 45799
2014-01 46364
2014-02 45861
2014-03 45416
2014-04 46108
2014-05 45488
2014-06 45347
2014-07 46641
2014-08 46846
2014-09 45675
2014-10 45543
2014-11 46323
2014-12 46511
2015-01 42354
2015-02 43507
2015-03 44309
2015-04 43667
2015-05 43027
2015-06 44038
2015-07 43461
2015-08 43587
2015-09 44325
2015-10 44262
2015-11 44327
2015-12 44398
2016-01 45876
2016-02 45575
2016-03 45246
2016-04 46912
2016-05 47457
2016-06 45957
2016-07 45744
2016-08 45800
2016-09 47251
2016-10 44756
2016-11 47012
2016-12 45757
2017-01 46502
2017-02 46469
2017-03 47544
2017-04 47137
2017-05 47455
2017-06 48429
2017-07 51316
2017-08 49851
2017-09 49798
2017-10 51088
2017-11 54663
2017-12 54096
2018-01 54949
2018-02 55761
2018-03 56193
2018-04 56447
2018-05 59641
2018-06 58438
2018-07 56387
2018-08 58669
2018-09 59063
2018-10 61282
2018-11 58682
2018-12 59060
2019-01 66338
2019-02 66360
2019-03 67749
2019-04 66417
2019-05 66095
2019-06 67880
2019-07 66933
2019-08 67019
2019-09 70038
2019-10 70336
2019-11 73232
2019-12 73430
2020-01 72099
2020-02 70192
2020-03 51932
2020-04 34049
2020-05 54434
2020-06 74949
2020-07 81755
2020-08 82052
  • *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 *)
May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20
Total businesses set-ups 54,434 74,949 81,755 82,052
Variation [m-o-m] % 59.9 37.7 9.1 0.4
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Upsurge in business births in accommodation and food service activities

In August 2020, the upsurge is the highest in accommodation and food service activities (+4.8%), especially in fast food services. Construction (+4.2%) and industry (+3.7%) are the other most rising sectors over all economic activities.

Increase in business births over the three last months

The raw number of business births totted up during the last three months (June to August) increased in comparison with the same months in 2019 (+19.0%). Transportation and storage activities was the sector that contributed the most to the overall increase (+11,800 business births, which comes to a contribution of +6.5points)*. Within it, the strongest increase was in business and other postal and mail activities (+12,200 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 (+3.6%). Sole proprietorships’ births increased sharply (+6.1%) while companies’ births declined (–3.1%).

* 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.

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-August 2020 January-August 2019
Total 19.0 3.6 510,633 530,764
Companies 9.8 -3.0 133,320 145,612
Sole proprietorships 22.5 6.1 377,313 385,152
  • *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 prietorships registrations

In August 2020, in raw data, the share of sole proprietorships in the businesses births over the last twelve months rose slightly to 74.1%.

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))
Jun.20 Jul.20 Aug.20
Companies 26.2 26.0 25.9
Sole proprietorships 73.8 74.0 74.1
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Revisions

The variation in the overall number of business births in July 2020 has been increased by 0.1 points to +9.1% instead of +9.0%, 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 8940 5975
2009-02 9694 7822
2009-03 10548 11111
2009-04 10848 11017
2009-05 11751 11483
2009-06 10893 11117
2009-07 11247 10935
2009-08 11017 10903
2009-09 11038 10965
2009-10 11233 11019
2009-11 11229 11401
2009-12 11718 11577
2010-01 11619 11707
2010-02 11634 11780
2010-03 11808 13333
2010-04 11015 11726
2010-05 11072 11552
2010-06 9899 9932
2010-07 10326 11273
2010-08 10694 10856
2010-09 10722 10997
2010-10 10790 11793
2010-11 10262 11373
2010-12 9491 9648
2011-01 9529 9469
2011-02 9787 9626
2011-03 9283 9391
2011-04 9805 9504
2011-05 9425 9553
2011-06 9614 9620
2011-07 9960 10448
2011-08 9370 9561
2011-09 10014 9668
2011-10 9229 9270
2011-11 9797 10947
2011-12 9748 9601
2012-01 9733 9669
2012-02 9191 9301
2012-03 9394 9894
2012-04 9261 9548
2012-05 9432 9557
2012-06 9550 9556
2012-07 9398 9682
2012-08 9665 10078
2012-09 9277 9320
2012-10 9508 9623
2012-11 9172 9225
2012-12 9341 9277
2013-01 9063 9218
2013-02 9106 9373
2013-03 9178 9346
2013-04 9157 9403
2013-05 9338 9469
2013-06 9204 9365
2013-07 9246 9229
2013-08 9181 9220
2013-09 9340 9458
2013-10 9181 9560
2013-11 9114 9726
2013-12 9041 9483
2014-01 9179 9730
2014-02 8970 9690
2014-03 9091 9614
2014-04 9134 9845
2014-05 9149 9727
2014-06 8762 9754
2014-07 9172 9960
2014-08 9133 10121
2014-09 8811 9955
2014-10 8959 9681
2014-11 8941 9682
2014-12 9013 9775
2015-01 8005 9152
2015-02 8265 9609
2015-03 8320 9610
2015-04 8255 9508
2015-05 8198 9477
2015-06 8317 9578
2015-07 8108 9650
2015-08 8098 9686
2015-09 8167 9646
2015-10 8086 9839
2015-11 8054 9803
2015-12 7854 10014
2016-01 8346 10153
2016-02 8288 10295
2016-03 8059 10181
2016-04 8305 10531
2016-05 8390 10706
2016-06 7976 10311
2016-07 7827 10367
2016-08 7912 10492
2016-09 8434 10699
2016-10 7495 10006
2016-11 8125 10856
2016-12 7792 10241
2017-01 7690 10682
2017-02 7673 10740
2017-03 7833 11041
2017-04 7906 10976
2017-05 7875 11383
2017-06 8071 11616
2017-07 8404 12605
2017-08 8604 11787
2017-09 8479 11858
2017-10 8861 11898
2017-11 8864 13458
2017-12 8984 12188
2018-01 8887 13346
2018-02 8875 13488
2018-03 8825 13635
2018-04 8667 13463
2018-05 9138 14221
2018-06 8954 13970
2018-07 8740 13719
2018-08 8981 13608
2018-09 9206 13806
2018-10 9374 14927
2018-11 9107 13527
2018-12 9096 13530
2019-01 9721 16508
2019-02 10055 15932
2019-03 10009 16199
2019-04 9713 16132
2019-05 9648 16146
2019-06 9710 16366
2019-07 9850 16717
2019-08 9990 15514
2019-09 10110 17205
2019-10 10078 17372
2019-11 10717 17550
2019-12 10325 16790
2020-01 10648 17359
2020-02 10436 15916
2020-03 6813 13588
2020-04 4794 9353
2020-05 8959 13379
2020-06 11383 16964
2020-07 13621 17267
2020-08 13509 17342
  • * 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 4743 621
2009-02 5947 673
2009-03 6238 675
2009-04 6570 715
2009-05 6852 755
2009-06 6927 727
2009-07 6986 712
2009-08 7028 718
2009-09 6986 672
2009-10 7337 736
2009-11 7568 677
2009-12 8072 732
2010-01 7951 844
2010-02 8573 811
2010-03 8347 881
2010-04 7914 797
2010-05 7566 809
2010-06 6453 742
2010-07 7463 775
2010-08 7375 764
2010-09 7486 814
2010-10 7902 816
2010-11 7419 780
2010-12 6749 772
2011-01 6424 779
2011-02 6799 763
2011-03 6589 783
2011-04 6773 806
2011-05 6729 764
2011-06 6559 773
2011-07 6788 777
2011-08 6925 896
2011-09 6880 794
2011-10 6866 804
2011-11 7131 771
2011-12 7077 767
2012-01 7103 771
2012-02 6918 777
2012-03 7214 798
2012-04 7127 792
2012-05 6628 796
2012-06 7333 864
2012-07 7351 895
2012-08 7377 892
2012-09 7110 789
2012-10 6961 836
2012-11 6555 807
2012-12 6570 814
2013-01 6518 835
2013-02 6594 904
2013-03 6701 893
2013-04 6634 797
2013-05 6932 963
2013-06 6588 930
2013-07 6471 923
2013-08 6410 891
2013-09 6457 974
2013-10 6634 938
2013-11 6649 960
2013-12 6932 1021
2014-01 6890 1083
2014-02 6958 1105
2014-03 6605 1038
2014-04 6630 1057
2014-05 6163 1030
2014-06 6352 1081
2014-07 6354 1196
2014-08 6200 1315
2014-09 6075 1166
2014-10 6044 1239
2014-11 6022 2261
2014-12 5923 1324
2015-01 5447 1091
2015-02 5355 1212
2015-03 5647 1905
2015-04 5356 1654
2015-05 5288 1422
2015-06 5360 1566
2015-07 5219 1650
2015-08 5205 1773
2015-09 5469 2062
2015-10 5183 2319
2015-11 5192 2333
2015-12 5110 2499
2016-01 5393 2381
2016-02 5239 2407
2016-03 5071 2471
2016-04 5430 2712
2016-05 5261 2933
2016-06 5138 2949
2016-07 5122 3009
2016-08 5038 2706
2016-09 5101 3166
2016-10 4849 3052
2016-11 4818 2920
2016-12 4889 2961
2017-01 4982 3175
2017-02 4927 3397
2017-03 4985 3359
2017-04 4958 3064
2017-05 4946 3200
2017-06 4902 3329
2017-07 5252 3515
2017-08 5014 3493
2017-09 5011 3223
2017-10 5349 3493
2017-11 5481 4347
2017-12 5523 4604
2018-01 5237 4745
2018-02 5574 4583
2018-03 5646 4934
2018-04 5608 5553
2018-05 5642 6330
2018-06 5689 6055
2018-07 5442 5956
2018-08 5709 6655
2018-09 5687 6377
2018-10 5723 6627
2018-11 5661 6788
2018-12 5912 6605
2019-01 6029 7048
2019-02 6100 7503
2019-03 6252 8045
2019-04 6176 7298
2019-05 6347 7164
2019-06 6788 7204
2019-07 6865 6389
2019-08 6853 6735
2019-09 7041 6831
2019-10 7009 6991
2019-11 7715 6180
2019-12 7102 6110
2020-01 7142 6386
2020-02 7235 6104
2020-03 4870 4613
2020-04 2968 2891
2020-05 4530 6409
2020-06 6951 11069
2020-07 7592 11258
2020-08 7912 11144
  • * 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 Jun.20 Jul.20 Aug.20
Total 74,949 81,755 82,052
Industry BE 3,346 3,632 3,765
Of which Manufacturing C 2,970 3,255 3,301
Construction FZ 6,951 7,592 7,912
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 25,375 28,958 28,927
Trade G 11,383 13,621 13,509
Transportation and storage H 11,069 11,258 11,144
Accommodation and food service activities I 2,923 4,080 4,274
Information and communication JZ 3,727 3,700 3,659
Financial and insurance activities KZ 1,749 1,815 1,875
Real estate activities LZ 3,045 3,413 3,490
Business support activities MN 16,964 17,267 17,342
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 6,877 7,387 7,340
Other services activities RS 6,917 7,991 7,741
  • * 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 Aug.20/Jul.20 Moving total % change**
SA-WDA * over 3 months over 12 months
Total 0.4 19.0 3.6
Industry BE 3.7 8.4 14.4
Of which Manufacturing C 1.4 9.8 17.7
Construction FZ 4.2 10.3 3.7
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI -0.1 40.3 1.0
Trade G -0.8 31.2 3.5
Transportation and storage H -1.0 67.1 -0.4
Accommodation and food service activities I 4.8 16.1 -3.5
Information and communication JZ -1.1 12.2 5.8
Financial and insurance activities KZ 3.3 8.1 6.5
Real estate activities LZ 2.3 26.3 8.0
Business support activities MN 0.4 6.6 2.4
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ -0.6 7.3 -1.8
Other services activities RS -3.1 15.7 12.0
  • * 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.

Next issue: 15 October 2020 at 8:45am

Documentation

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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.

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

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