Informations Rapides · 15 April 2021 · n° 95
Slight fall back in business births in March 2021 Enterprise births - March 2021

In March 2021, the number of business births for all enterprises fell back slightly (–0.8% after +3.5% in February seasonally and working-day adjusted). Micro-entrepreneurs' registrations decreased (–1.9% after +4.7%) while conventionnal business births kept rising (+1.4 after +1.1%).

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In March 2021, the evolution of the number of business births in transport and storage activities and in accommodation and food service activities should be taken with caution. Indeed, the procedure used for coding the economic activity of new enterprises has been improved in the business register Sirene. So, enterprises engaged in meal delivery are now all correctly classified in other postal and mail activities, including home delivery, while some were previously incorrectly classified in fast-food activities.

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Decrease in business births in accommodation and food service activities and manufacturing activities
Sharp increase in business births over the three last months
Increase in business births over the twelve last months
Nearly two business births out of three are micro-entrepreneurs’ registrations
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tableauBusiness monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)
	Total of entreprise start-ups	Conventional businesses
2009-01	35110	22342
2009-02	41705	22756
2009-03	47928	21868
2009-04	49296	21375
2009-05	53184	22011
2009-06	50132	21304
2009-07	49071	20313
2009-08	49849	20868
2009-09	49461	21019
2009-10	50225	21175
2009-11	50865	21996
2009-12	55459	23016
2010-01	54959	22193
2010-02	55547	21101
2010-03	56458	21322
2010-04	52466	21331
2010-05	52610	21985
2010-06	45842	22323
2010-07	49740	21523
2010-08	50613	22447
2010-09	49647	21973
2010-10	52845	21890
2010-11	50279	21766
2010-12	45849	21255
2011-01	44770	21390
2011-02	45897	21670
2011-03	44039	21378
2011-04	45431	21530
2011-05	44657	21569
2011-06	45285	20534
2011-07	47370	21740
2011-08	45273	21475
2011-09	46358	21662
2011-10	44463	20436
2011-11	48611	22460
2011-12	46970	21701
2012-01	47180	21027
2012-02	45392	20390
2012-03	46672	20595
2012-04	45675	20112
2012-05	45473	19432
2012-06	46847	20123
2012-07	46679	20317
2012-08	47571	20389
2012-09	45375	19737
2012-10	46239	20273
2012-11	43370	19402
2012-12	43922	20324
2013-01	44451	21308
2013-02	45173	22024
2013-03	45225	21944
2013-04	44931	21796
2013-05	46086	22567
2013-06	44853	22006
2013-07	44019	21653
2013-08	44013	21670
2013-09	45542	22239
2013-10	45539	22651
2013-11	45704	22430
2013-12	45793	22490
2014-01	46281	22323
2014-02	45905	22534
2014-03	45326	22469
2014-04	46419	23129
2014-05	45653	22262
2014-06	45382	22314
2014-07	46743	22384
2014-08	47071	22738
2014-09	45979	21680
2014-10	45382	21680
2014-11	45970	21837
2014-12	46734	22584
2015-01	42470	20404
2015-02	43685	20124
2015-03	44442	20337
2015-04	43564	20300
2015-05	42914	20154
2015-06	44038	20555
2015-07	43109	20667
2015-08	43474	20850
2015-09	44380	21128
2015-10	44017	20915
2015-11	43935	21261
2015-12	44979	21592
2016-01	45972	22352
2016-02	45567	22096
2016-03	45436	21781
2016-04	46842	22020
2016-05	47394	22675
2016-06	45790	22110
2016-07	45972	22297
2016-08	46181	22216
2016-09	46840	22288
2016-10	44828	21432
2016-11	46860	23037
2016-12	45826	23655
2017-01	46402	22301
2017-02	46343	22234
2017-03	47052	22447
2017-04	47226	22757
2017-05	47442	22705
2017-06	48411	23116
2017-07	51742	23680
2017-08	50180	23387
2017-09	49858	22751
2017-10	51246	23893
2017-11	54149	25497
2017-12	55174	24336
2018-01	54622	23869
2018-02	55335	23953
2018-03	55416	23873
2018-04	56161	24059
2018-05	59050	25079
2018-06	58683	24697
2018-07	56726	24013
2018-08	59343	24661
2018-09	59522	24505
2018-10	61053	24809
2018-11	58560	24140
2018-12	60046	24664
2019-01	65487	25608
2019-02	65586	25917
2019-03	66726	26262
2019-04	65956	26131
2019-05	65434	25998
2019-06	68729	26613
2019-07	67559	26105
2019-08	68533	26060
2019-09	69781	26335
2019-10	69819	26259
2019-11	73615	30126
2019-12	75357	24263
2020-01	71376	26814
2020-02	69652	27509
2020-03	50802	19696
2020-04	33340	11727
2020-05	54552	18479
2020-06	75278	25223
2020-07	82120	27770
2020-08	83269	29430
2020-09	83419	28849
2020-10	83666	28884
2020-11	84607	28660
2020-12	82674	28623
2021-01	82436	28362
2021-02	85304	28687
2021-03	84652	29097

* Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

graphiqueBusiness monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

Chargement en cours — * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

*Source: INSEE, REE (Sirene)*

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

Business set-ups by month (SA-WDA *)
	Dec-20	Jan-21	Feb-21	Mar-21
Total businesses set-ups	82,674	82,436	85,304	84,652
Variation [m-o-m] %	-2.3	-0.3	3.5	-0.8
Conventional businesses	28,623	28,362	28,687	29,097
Variation [m-o-m] %	-0.1	-0.9	1.1	1.4
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs	54,051	54,074	56,617	55,555
Variation [m-o-m] %	-3.4	0.0	4.7	-1.9

* Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
Source: Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Decrease in business births in accommodation and food service activities and manufacturing activities

In March 2021, the number of business births fell sharply in accommodation and food service activities (–23.7%) and in manufacturing activities (–3.9%). On the other hand, the number of business births increased in transport and storage activities (+4.7%).

Sharp increase in business births over the three last months

The raw number of business births totted up during the last three months (January to March) increased sharply in comparison with the same months one year ago (+30.7%). This particularly strong increase is explained by the high number of busines births in the first quarter of 2021 but also by the abnormally low number of business births in the first quarter of 2020 due to the first lockdown. Micro-entrepreneurs’ registrations went up sharply (+39.8%), as well as companies’s births (+21.9%). Conventionnal sole proprietorships’ births increased more moderately (+3.1%).

Transportation and storage activities was the sector that contributed the most to the overall rise (+23,000 business births, which comes to a contribution of +10.9 points)*. Within it, the strongest increase was in other postal and mail activities (+23,500 business births over the last three months in comparison with the same months one year ago). This upsurge is mainly due to the development in home delivery.

Increase in business births over the twelve last months

The raw number of business births totted up during the last twelve months went up (12.8%). Micro-entrepreneurs' registrations increased more strongly (+19.8%) than companies’ births (+6.0%), while sole proprietorships’ births declined (–9.3%).

* 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.

tableauCumulated 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 – March 2021	January – March 2020
Total	30.7	12.8	275,616	210,835
Companies	21.9	6.0	70,652	57,976
Conventional sole proprietorships	3.1	-9.3	24,516	23,778
Self-mamaged micro-entrepreneurs	39.8	19.8	180,448	129,081

*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 two business births out of three are micro-entrepreneurs’ registrations

In March 2021, in raw data, the share of micro-entrepreneurs’ in the businesses births over the last twelve months increased slightly to 65.7%.

tableauBusiness 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))
	Jan-21	Feb-21	Mar-21
Companies	25.7	25.4	25.3
Sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs	9.4	9.2	9.1
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs	64.9	65.4	65.7

Source: Insee, REE (issu de SIRENE)

Revisions

The variation in the overall number of business births in February 2021 has been lowered by 0.3 points to +3.5% instead of +3.8%, due to the revision of raw data and the update of the SA-WDA parameters.

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tableauTrade 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	8890	6592
2009-02	9780	8382
2009-03	10561	10935
2009-04	10893	10804
2009-05	11766	11562
2009-06	10988	11065
2009-07	11134	10715
2009-08	10925	10998
2009-09	10928	10798
2009-10	11207	10921
2009-11	11159	10812
2009-12	12026	11882
2010-01	11649	12195
2010-02	11727	12053
2010-03	11736	12496
2010-04	11065	11621
2010-05	11035	11669
2010-06	9929	9844
2010-07	10403	11245
2010-08	10653	10933
2010-09	10618	10675
2010-10	10714	11993
2010-11	10238	11086
2010-12	9551	9978
2011-01	9467	9721
2011-02	9849	9947
2011-03	9372	9267
2011-04	9807	9765
2011-05	9397	9229
2011-06	9687	9735
2011-07	9876	10690
2011-08	9369	9435
2011-09	9919	9652
2011-10	9135	9313
2011-11	9773	10338
2011-12	9821	9879
2012-01	9725	9860
2012-02	9204	9522
2012-03	9446	9865
2012-04	9238	9552
2012-05	9454	9429
2012-06	9511	9619
2012-07	9369	9556
2012-08	9651	10178
2012-09	9230	9462
2012-10	9401	9565
2012-11	9075	8984
2012-12	9268	9190
2013-01	9099	9254
2013-02	9180	9466
2013-03	9195	9559
2013-04	9186	9444
2013-05	9463	9480
2013-06	9222	9315
2013-07	9121	9104
2013-08	9108	9142
2013-09	9230	9485
2013-10	9209	9478
2013-11	9178	9649
2013-12	9108	9605
2014-01	9206	9815
2014-02	9061	9707
2014-03	9093	9577
2014-04	9195	9975
2014-05	9018	9843
2014-06	8766	9731
2014-07	9250	10005
2014-08	9128	10235
2014-09	8777	9920
2014-10	8881	9645
2014-11	8921	9563
2014-12	8908	10054
2015-01	7970	9447
2015-02	8365	9624
2015-03	8359	9613
2015-04	8300	9441
2015-05	8212	9128
2015-06	8260	9499
2015-07	8081	9530
2015-08	8037	9471
2015-09	8048	9649
2015-10	8045	9922
2015-11	8002	9682
2015-12	8115	10080
2016-01	8331	10328
2016-02	8301	10222
2016-03	8223	10188
2016-04	8272	10609
2016-05	8356	10515
2016-06	7983	10111
2016-07	7806	10513
2016-08	7918	10595
2016-09	8325	10564
2016-10	7459	10130
2016-11	8129	10739
2016-12	7805	10508
2017-01	7602	10625
2017-02	7708	10640
2017-03	7797	10886
2017-04	8006	11022
2017-05	7897	11288
2017-06	8160	11658
2017-07	8487	12565
2017-08	8603	11915
2017-09	8393	12002
2017-10	8848	12014
2017-11	8895	13156
2017-12	9038	13220
2018-01	8766	12992
2018-02	8900	13259
2018-03	8852	13340
2018-04	8667	13447
2018-05	9134	14048
2018-06	9037	14033
2018-07	8751	13816
2018-08	8984	14149
2018-09	9200	13967
2018-10	9312	14481
2018-11	9051	13542
2018-12	8943	14464
2019-01	9562	15533
2019-02	10055	15588
2019-03	9958	16248
2019-04	9772	15984
2019-05	9746	16050
2019-06	10012	16748
2019-07	9823	16671
2019-08	10007	16609
2019-09	10021	16871
2019-10	10076	16457
2019-11	10807	17666
2019-12	10307	18713
2020-01	10412	16729
2020-02	10495	15850
2020-03	6799	13300
2020-04	4808	9055
2020-05	9117	13409
2020-06	11769	16742
2020-07	13630	17451
2020-08	13367	18271
2020-09	13034	17540
2020-10	13138	18264
2020-11	13129	18488
2020-12	12725	18192
2021-01	12277	17834
2021-02	12076	18193
2021-03	11858	17954

* Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

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

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

Construction and transportation business monthly set-ups (SA-WDA*)
	Construction	Transportation and storage
2009-01	4787	612
2009-02	5872	674
2009-03	6137	683
2009-04	6555	705
2009-05	6813	785
2009-06	6878	734
2009-07	7051	692
2009-08	6915	721
2009-09	7229	676
2009-10	7290	724
2009-11	7494	690
2009-12	8021	731
2010-01	8038	843
2010-02	8379	810
2010-03	8422	884
2010-04	7752	786
2010-05	7856	816
2010-06	6597	741
2010-07	7048	782
2010-08	7348	770
2010-09	7605	809
2010-10	7929	809
2010-11	7852	789
2010-12	6907	744
2011-01	6452	780
2011-02	6649	761
2011-03	6662	774
2011-04	6654	807
2011-05	6811	783
2011-06	6742	761
2011-07	6752	789
2011-08	7184	887
2011-09	6903	785
2011-10	6690	814
2011-11	7496	772
2011-12	6872	756
2012-01	7153	778
2012-02	6916	765
2012-03	6978	791
2012-04	6927	802
2012-05	6901	785
2012-06	7253	868
2012-07	7337	914
2012-08	7376	875
2012-09	7085	799
2012-10	7162	834
2012-11	6824	797
2012-12	6281	816
2013-01	6638	817
2013-02	6432	898
2013-03	6601	893
2013-04	6559	811
2013-05	6967	965
2013-06	6509	945
2013-07	6519	945
2013-08	6394	896
2013-09	6491	983
2013-10	6739	918
2013-11	6679	958
2013-12	6673	1022
2014-01	6869	1059
2014-02	6831	1098
2014-03	6396	1063
2014-04	6805	1057
2014-05	6303	1063
2014-06	6403	1084
2014-07	6442	1191
2014-08	6167	1340
2014-09	6204	1179
2014-10	6144	1192
2014-11	5910	2257
2014-12	6025	1311
2015-01	5423	1084
2015-02	5345	1207
2015-03	5618	1927
2015-04	5435	1647
2015-05	5277	1455
2015-06	5369	1602
2015-07	5221	1638
2015-08	5171	1823
2015-09	5664	2033
2015-10	5066	2264
2015-11	4901	2377
2015-12	5208	2449
2016-01	5370	2390
2016-02	5207	2433
2016-03	5211	2413
2016-04	5374	2792
2016-05	5307	2964
2016-06	5241	2932
2016-07	5077	3077
2016-08	5186	2732
2016-09	5098	3104
2016-10	4731	3038
2016-11	4699	2934
2016-12	4740	2932
2017-01	5016	3211
2017-02	4954	3428
2017-03	5078	3273
2017-04	4951	3104
2017-05	5093	3141
2017-06	4975	3241
2017-07	5114	3682
2017-08	5080	3506
2017-09	4966	3218
2017-10	5322	3422
2017-11	5313	4331
2017-12	5482	4605
2018-01	5407	4790
2018-02	5607	4660
2018-03	5600	4839
2018-04	5616	5523
2018-05	5690	6108
2018-06	5719	6065
2018-07	5460	5937
2018-08	5741	6561
2018-09	5624	6439
2018-10	5780	6581
2018-11	5499	6923
2018-12	5668	6961
2019-01	6160	7269
2019-02	6145	7633
2019-03	6227	7657
2019-04	6229	7154
2019-05	6202	6931
2019-06	6854	7093
2019-07	6943	6500
2019-08	6901	6734
2019-09	6914	6841
2019-10	7056	6911
2019-11	7555	6444
2019-12	6810	6399
2020-01	7203	6668
2020-02	7252	6347
2020-03	4854	4306
2020-04	3054	2730
2020-05	4484	6294
2020-06	7054	10709
2020-07	7621	11255
2020-08	7986	11095
2020-09	7843	11219
2020-10	7712	11342
2020-11	8319	11416
2020-12	7838	10205
2021-01	7389	11440
2021-02	7518	13085
2021-03	7420	13705

* Seasonally and working-day adjusted data

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

tableauNumber 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	Jan-21	Feb-21	Mar-21
Total		82,436	85,304	84,652
Industry	BE	4,009	3,897	4,043
Of which Manufacturing	C	3,547	3,489	3,354
Construction	FZ	7,389	7,518	7,420
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities	GI	28,333	30,123	29,348
Trade	G	12,277	12,076	11,858
Transportation and storage	H	11,440	13,085	13,705
Accommodation and food service activities	I	4,616	4,962	3,785
Information and communication	JZ	4,274	4,316	4,309
Financial and insurance activities	KZ	2,207	2,167	2,235
Real estate activities	LZ	3,571	3,505	3,590
Business support activities	MN	17,834	18,193	17,954
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities	OQ	7,373	7,711	7,708
Other services activities	RS	7,446	7,874	8,044

* Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
Source: Insee, REE (SIRENE)

tableauFluctuation 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	Mar. 21 / Feb.21	Moving total % change**
		SA-WDA *	over 3 months	over 12 months
Total		-0.8	30.7	12.8
Industry	BE	3.7	24.0	7.7
Of which Manufacturing	C	-3.9	22.4	8.8
Construction	FZ	-1.3	14.9	4.5
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities	GI	-2.6	62.6	32.0
Trade	G	-1.8	31.2	19.4
Transportation and storage	H	4.7	123.1	60.5
Accommodation and food service activities	I	-23.7	44.5	13.0
Information and communication	JZ	-0.2	27.8	11.3
Financial and insurance activities	KZ	3.2	30.1	10.7
Real estate activities	LZ	2.4	34.3	17.8
Business support activities	MN	-1.3	16.0	3.2
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities	OQ	0.0	19.5	3.3
Other services activities	RS	2.2	10.6	1.3

* 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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