Informations Rapides · 16 June 2021 · n° 151
Fall back in business births in May 2021; sharp increase over the twelve last months Enterprise births - May 2021

In May 2021, the number of business births for all enterprises fell back (–4.0% after +1.9% in April seasonally and working-day adjusted). Micro-entrepreneurs' registrations decreased sharply (–7.3% after +0.7%) while conventionnal business births increased (+2.1% after +4.0%).

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In mid-March 2021, an improvement in the coding procedure of the economic activity of business births in the Sirene register disrupted the series in transport and storage activities and in accommodation and food service activities. 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 transport and storage activities over one month
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	35109	22342
2009-02	41706	22756
2009-03	47930	21868
2009-04	49296	21375
2009-05	53184	22011
2009-06	50132	21304
2009-07	49071	20313
2009-08	49849	20868
2009-09	49460	21019
2009-10	50226	21175
2009-11	50861	21995
2009-12	55459	23016
2010-01	54957	22193
2010-02	55548	21101
2010-03	56461	21322
2010-04	52466	21331
2010-05	52610	21985
2010-06	45842	22323
2010-07	49739	21523
2010-08	50614	22447
2010-09	49645	21973
2010-10	52845	21890
2010-11	50275	21765
2010-12	45848	21254
2011-01	44769	21389
2011-02	45897	21669
2011-03	44040	21377
2011-04	45434	21533
2011-05	44657	21569
2011-06	45284	20534
2011-07	47369	21740
2011-08	45273	21476
2011-09	46357	21661
2011-10	44462	20435
2011-11	48607	22459
2011-12	46974	21700
2012-01	47179	21025
2012-02	45390	20389
2012-03	46671	20594
2012-04	45680	20118
2012-05	45473	19433
2012-06	46847	20124
2012-07	46679	20318
2012-08	47573	20392
2012-09	45371	19735
2012-10	46237	20271
2012-11	43365	19400
2012-12	43928	20322
2013-01	44450	21305
2013-02	45170	22022
2013-03	45225	21944
2013-04	44940	21805
2013-05	46087	22569
2013-06	44856	22008
2013-07	44022	21655
2013-08	44016	21674
2013-09	45539	22237
2013-10	45536	22650
2013-11	45690	22417
2013-12	45800	22488
2014-01	46277	22317
2014-02	45903	22533
2014-03	45325	22469
2014-04	46428	23140
2014-05	45655	22264
2014-06	45388	22321
2014-07	46746	22388
2014-08	47077	22745
2014-09	45980	21681
2014-10	45380	21679
2014-11	45944	21810
2014-12	46741	22583
2015-01	42466	20396
2015-02	43683	20124
2015-03	44443	20339
2015-04	43573	20310
2015-05	42922	20164
2015-06	44046	20565
2015-07	43113	20672
2015-08	43480	20857
2015-09	44382	21131
2015-10	44015	20914
2015-11	43889	21215
2015-12	44982	21590
2016-01	45962	22340
2016-02	45567	22097
2016-03	45441	21786
2016-04	46852	22031
2016-05	47417	22697
2016-06	45806	22127
2016-07	45979	22304
2016-08	46189	22224
2016-09	46842	22292
2016-10	44820	21427
2016-11	46796	22970
2016-12	45815	23644
2017-01	46384	22284
2017-02	46345	22234
2017-03	47063	22456
2017-04	47244	22775
2017-05	47484	22747
2017-06	48433	23138
2017-07	51758	23698
2017-08	50185	23391
2017-09	49861	22756
2017-10	51225	23880
2017-11	54066	25409
2017-12	55139	24306
2018-01	54580	23832
2018-02	55319	23934
2018-03	55444	23892
2018-04	56213	24103
2018-05	59149	25176
2018-06	58711	24724
2018-07	56765	24051
2018-08	59332	24651
2018-09	59501	24492
2018-10	61013	24783
2018-11	58466	24045
2018-12	59968	24605
2019-01	65409	25550
2019-02	65554	25877
2019-03	66804	26302
2019-04	66032	26203
2019-05	65633	26176
2019-06	68759	26640
2019-07	67617	26168
2019-08	68497	26028
2019-09	69726	26295
2019-10	69752	26218
2019-11	73487	30003
2019-12	75234	24180
2020-01	71261	26735
2020-02	69612	27451
2020-03	50907	19743
2020-04	33380	11764
2020-05	54793	18663
2020-06	75299	25240
2020-07	82196	27855
2020-08	83203	29370
2020-09	83317	28772
2020-10	83563	28828
2020-11	84467	28529
2020-12	82491	28490
2021-01	82283	28253
2021-02	85127	28565
2021-03	84489	29058
2021-04	86060	30223
2021-05	82637	30862

* 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 *)
	Feb-21	Mar-21	Apr-21	May-21
Total businesses set-ups	85,127	84,489	86,060	82,637
Variation [m-o-m] %	3.5	-0.7	1.9	-4.0
Conventional businesses	28,565	29,058	30,223	30,862
Variation [m-o-m] %	1.1	1.7	4.0	2.1
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs	56,562	55,430	55,837	51,775
Variation [m-o-m] %	4.7	-2.0	0.7	-7.3

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

Decrease in business births in transport and storage activities over one month

In May 2021, the number of business births decreased in transport and storage activities (–13.9%), in education, human health and social work activities (–11.6%) and in manufacturing activities (–10.4%). On the other hand, the number of business births increased in accommodation and food service activities (+12.4%).

Sharp increase in business births over the three last months

The raw number of business births totted up during the last three months (March to May) increased sharply in comparison with the same months one year ago (+91.2%). This particularly strong increase is explained by the high number of busines births in the first quarter of 2021 but above all 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 (+93.8%), as well as companies’s births (+97.1%) and conventionnal sole proprietorships’ births (+58.7%).

Transportation and storage activities was the sector that contributed the most to the overall rise (+30,000 business births, which comes to a contribution of +21.4 points)*. Within it, the strongest increase was in other postal and mail activities (+27,600 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 (+31.0%). Micro-entrepreneurs' registrations increased more strongly (+37.2%) than companies’ births (+27.3%), and sole proprietorships’ births (+4.9%).

* 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.

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 – May 2021	January – May 2020
Total	91.2	31.0	441,246	293,193
Companies	97.1	27.3	116,133	78,047
Conventional sole proprietorships	58.7	4.9	37,672	31,668
Self-mamaged micro-entrepreneurs	93.8	37.2	287,441	183,478

*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 May 2021, in raw data, the share of micro-entrepreneurs’ in the businesses births over the last twelve months is virtually stable and represents 65.5%.

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))
	Mar-21	Apr-21	May-21
Companies	25.3	25.4	25.7
Sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs	9.0	9.0	8.8
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs	65.7	65.6	65.5

Source: Insee, REE (issu de SIRENE)

Revisions

The variation in the overall number of business births in April 2021 has been increased by 0.1 points to +1.9% instead of +1.8%, 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	11066	11621
2010-05	11036	11669
2010-06	9929	9844
2010-07	10403	11245
2010-08	10654	10933
2010-09	10617	10675
2010-10	10714	11993
2010-11	10238	11086
2010-12	9550	9978
2011-01	9467	9721
2011-02	9848	9947
2011-03	9372	9267
2011-04	9810	9765
2011-05	9397	9229
2011-06	9687	9735
2011-07	9876	10690
2011-08	9371	9435
2011-09	9917	9652
2011-10	9134	9314
2011-11	9772	10338
2011-12	9820	9879
2012-01	9724	9860
2012-02	9202	9521
2012-03	9445	9865
2012-04	9243	9552
2012-05	9454	9429
2012-06	9512	9619
2012-07	9369	9556
2012-08	9653	10178
2012-09	9227	9462
2012-10	9399	9565
2012-11	9073	8984
2012-12	9266	9190
2013-01	9096	9254
2013-02	9178	9466
2013-03	9194	9559
2013-04	9195	9444
2013-05	9464	9480
2013-06	9224	9316
2013-07	9123	9105
2013-08	9112	9143
2013-09	9228	9486
2013-10	9208	9478
2013-11	9165	9649
2013-12	9106	9605
2014-01	9202	9814
2014-02	9061	9706
2014-03	9093	9577
2014-04	9206	9975
2014-05	9020	9842
2014-06	8771	9734
2014-07	9254	10006
2014-08	9134	10235
2014-09	8779	9920
2014-10	8880	9645
2014-11	8896	9563
2014-12	8906	10054
2015-01	7964	9446
2015-02	8367	9622
2015-03	8361	9613
2015-04	8310	9441
2015-05	8220	9128
2015-06	8265	9505
2015-07	8085	9531
2015-08	8043	9470
2015-09	8050	9649
2015-10	8044	9923
2015-11	7959	9680
2015-12	8110	10079
2016-01	8322	10326
2016-02	8305	10219
2016-03	8227	10188
2016-04	8284	10609
2016-05	8377	10515
2016-06	7990	10121
2016-07	7814	10515
2016-08	7925	10594
2016-09	8328	10564
2016-10	7455	10130
2016-11	8071	10732
2016-12	7794	10504
2017-01	7589	10621
2017-02	7712	10637
2017-03	7803	10888
2017-04	8020	11025
2017-05	7932	11294
2017-06	8170	11668
2017-07	8501	12572
2017-08	8606	11915
2017-09	8398	12003
2017-10	8838	12013
2017-11	8827	13139
2017-12	9011	13209
2018-01	8739	12985
2018-02	8891	13247
2018-03	8866	13344
2018-04	8693	13466
2018-05	9205	14074
2018-06	9054	14046
2018-07	8784	13824
2018-08	8971	14149
2018-09	9192	13960
2018-10	9286	14482
2018-11	8987	13510
2018-12	8898	14438
2019-01	9517	15519
2019-02	10034	15569
2019-03	9992	16259
2019-04	9803	16018
2019-05	9866	16117
2019-06	10034	16761
2019-07	9879	16679
2019-08	9975	16607
2019-09	9997	16852
2019-10	10031	16459
2019-11	10738	17600
2019-12	10243	18671
2020-01	10355	16710
2020-02	10466	15823
2020-03	6835	13316
2020-04	4819	9078
2020-05	9239	13506
2020-06	11789	16755
2020-07	13708	17454
2020-08	13311	18267
2020-09	12984	17505
2020-10	13065	18268
2020-11	13060	18407
2020-12	12626	18131
2021-01	12202	17810
2021-02	12018	18135
2021-03	11878	17924
2021-04	12222	19548
2021-05	12180	18722

* 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	5873	674
2009-03	6139	683
2009-04	6555	705
2009-05	6813	785
2009-06	6878	734
2009-07	7050	692
2009-08	6915	721
2009-09	7229	676
2009-10	7291	724
2009-11	7489	690
2009-12	8021	731
2010-01	8037	843
2010-02	8381	810
2010-03	8425	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	7930	809
2010-11	7848	789
2010-12	6907	744
2011-01	6451	780
2011-02	6649	761
2011-03	6664	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	7493	772
2011-12	6872	756
2012-01	7153	778
2012-02	6917	765
2012-03	6979	791
2012-04	6927	802
2012-05	6901	785
2012-06	7252	868
2012-07	7336	914
2012-08	7376	875
2012-09	7085	799
2012-10	7163	834
2012-11	6822	797
2012-12	6281	816
2013-01	6638	817
2013-02	6432	898
2013-03	6601	893
2013-04	6560	811
2013-05	6967	965
2013-06	6508	945
2013-07	6519	945
2013-08	6393	896
2013-09	6490	983
2013-10	6740	918
2013-11	6678	958
2013-12	6673	1022
2014-01	6870	1058
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	1341
2014-09	6204	1179
2014-10	6144	1192
2014-11	5910	2256
2014-12	6025	1311
2015-01	5423	1084
2015-02	5345	1207
2015-03	5618	1927
2015-04	5436	1647
2015-05	5277	1455
2015-06	5368	1602
2015-07	5221	1638
2015-08	5170	1825
2015-09	5664	2033
2015-10	5066	2264
2015-11	4903	2375
2015-12	5208	2449
2016-01	5370	2389
2016-02	5207	2433
2016-03	5211	2414
2016-04	5375	2792
2016-05	5307	2964
2016-06	5240	2931
2016-07	5078	3077
2016-08	5186	2735
2016-09	5097	3105
2016-10	4731	3038
2016-11	4702	2931
2016-12	4740	2932
2017-01	5015	3211
2017-02	4954	3428
2017-03	5078	3274
2017-04	4951	3104
2017-05	5093	3140
2017-06	4973	3241
2017-07	5115	3682
2017-08	5080	3510
2017-09	4964	3219
2017-10	5321	3421
2017-11	5318	4327
2017-12	5482	4606
2018-01	5404	4789
2018-02	5610	4659
2018-03	5602	4841
2018-04	5615	5523
2018-05	5688	6108
2018-06	5717	6066
2018-07	5461	5937
2018-08	5739	6565
2018-09	5621	6441
2018-10	5778	6579
2018-11	5507	6918
2018-12	5667	6962
2019-01	6153	7268
2019-02	6152	7632
2019-03	6234	7661
2019-04	6226	7147
2019-05	6203	6934
2019-06	6850	7095
2019-07	6943	6501
2019-08	6896	6738
2019-09	6909	6843
2019-10	7050	6910
2019-11	7570	6441
2019-12	6807	6402
2020-01	7189	6666
2020-02	7264	6345
2020-03	4866	4308
2020-04	3051	2724
2020-05	4488	6300
2020-06	7047	10714
2020-07	7621	11259
2020-08	7977	11100
2020-09	7835	11221
2020-10	7701	11341
2020-11	8339	11418
2020-12	7831	10214
2021-01	7372	11442
2021-02	7523	13088
2021-03	7433	13683
2021-04	7492	13136
2021-05	7114	11309

* 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	Mar-21	Apr-21	May-21
Total		84,489	86,060	82,637
Industry	BE	4,029	3,993	3,627
Of which Manufacturing	C	3,360	3,707	3,323
Construction	FZ	7,433	7,492	7,114
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities	GI	29,307	27,846	26,286
Trade	G	11,878	12,222	12,180
Transportation and storage	H	13,683	13,136	11,309
Accommodation and food service activities	I	3,746	2,488	2,797
Information and communication	JZ	4,295	4,749	4,690
Financial and insurance activities	KZ	2,215	2,414	2,464
Real estate activities	LZ	3,568	3,686	3,840
Business support activities	MN	17,924	19,548	18,722
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities	OQ	7,707	7,828	6,917
Other services activities	RS	8,010	8,503	8,978

* Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
** The evolution of the number of business births in accommodation and food services between March and April is mainly due to a change in the coding of the activity of meal deliverers (see warning).
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 %) - ** Total of business start-ups during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier
	NA	May.21 / Apr.21	Moving total % change**
		SA-WDA *	over 3 months	over 12 months
Total		-4.0	91.2	31.0
Industry	BE	-9.2	77.8	22.5
Of which Manufacturing	C	-10.4	72.9	22.2
Construction	FZ	-5.0	81.0	21.8
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities	GI	-5.6	126.2	57.1
Trade	G	-0.3	81.3	36.6
Transportation and storage	H	-13.9	208.4	98.6
Accommodation and food service activities	I	12.4	91.0	36.6
Information and communication	JZ	-1.3	66.2	24.9
Financial and insurance activities	KZ	2.1	90.7	27.4
Real estate activities	LZ	4.2	113.6	39.1
Business support activities	MN	-4.2	60.8	17.1
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities	OQ	-11.6	75.1	16.7
Other services activities	RS	5.6	99.9	20.0

* 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
*** The evolution of the number of business births in accommodation and food services between March and April is mainly due to a change in the coding of the activity of meal deliverers (see warning).
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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