Informations rapides
15 October 2020
2020- n° 260
Rise in business births in September 2020 Enterprise births - September 2020

In September 2020, the number of business births for all enterprises rose (+2.3% after +0.0% in August seasonally and working-day adjusted).

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In September 2020, the number of business births for all enterprises rose (+2.3% after +0.0% in August seasonally and working-day adjusted).

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)

Business monthly start-ups (SA-WDA*)
Total of entreprise start-ups
2009-01 34378
2009-02 40960
2009-03 48167
2009-04 49485
2009-05 52712
2009-06 50058
2009-07 49681
2009-08 49902
2009-09 49344
2009-10 50714
2009-11 52041
2009-12 54744
2010-01 53998
2010-02 55125
2010-03 57142
2010-04 52798
2010-05 52248
2010-06 45726
2010-07 50183
2010-08 50412
2010-09 49962
2010-10 52960
2010-11 50376
2010-12 45590
2011-01 44301
2011-02 45507
2011-03 44028
2011-04 45294
2011-05 44857
2011-06 44979
2011-07 47255
2011-08 45123
2011-09 46565
2011-10 44711
2011-11 48995
2011-12 46975
2012-01 46584
2012-02 45193
2012-03 46954
2012-04 45839
2012-05 45532
2012-06 46982
2012-07 46830
2012-08 47698
2012-09 45179
2012-10 46119
2012-11 43718
2012-12 44361
2013-01 44355
2013-02 45100
2013-03 45104
2013-04 44831
2013-05 46050
2013-06 44880
2013-07 44178
2013-08 44178
2013-09 45473
2013-10 45460
2013-11 45727
2013-12 45775
2014-01 46358
2014-02 45854
2014-03 45422
2014-04 46096
2014-05 45514
2014-06 45348
2014-07 46624
2014-08 46898
2014-09 45680
2014-10 45522
2014-11 46301
2014-12 46517
2015-01 42372
2015-02 43502
2015-03 44276
2015-04 43674
2015-05 43032
2015-06 44037
2015-07 43504
2015-08 43666
2015-09 44333
2015-10 44236
2015-11 44236
2015-12 44373
2016-01 45898
2016-02 45577
2016-03 45198
2016-04 46957
2016-05 47437
2016-06 45977
2016-07 45813
2016-08 45870
2016-09 47257
2016-10 44730
2016-11 46869
2016-12 45753
2017-01 46482
2017-02 46457
2017-03 47552
2017-04 47185
2017-05 47461
2017-06 48445
2017-07 51436
2017-08 49983
2017-09 49770
2017-10 50944
2017-11 54445
2017-12 54053
2018-01 54902
2018-02 55757
2018-03 56214
2018-04 56570
2018-05 59761
2018-06 58527
2018-07 56518
2018-08 58811
2018-09 58869
2018-10 61081
2018-11 58476
2018-12 59016
2019-01 66290
2019-02 66403
2019-03 67777
2019-04 66633
2019-05 66277
2019-06 67972
2019-07 67125
2019-08 67231
2019-09 69596
2019-10 70046
2019-11 73008
2019-12 73227
2020-01 72061
2020-02 70322
2020-03 51930
2020-04 34395
2020-05 54728
2020-06 75016
2020-07 81883
2020-08 81912
2020-09 83825
  • *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 *)
Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20
Total businesses set-ups 75,016 81,883 81,912 83,825
Variation [m-o-m] % 37.1 9.2 0.0 2.3
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Upsurge in business births in education, human health and social work activities

In September 2020, the rise in business births was the highest in education, human health and social work activities (+9.4%), mainly in education activities. The business births increased sharply also in accomodation and food service activities (+5.1%) and business support acitivities (+4.5%).

Increase in business births over the three last months

The raw number of business births totted up during the last three months (July to September) increased in comparison with the same months in 2019 (+21.5%). Transportation and storage activities was the sector that contributed the most to the overall rise (+11,900 business births, which comes to a contribution of +6.3 points)*. Within it, the strongest increase was in business and other postal and mail activities (+12,200 business births over the last three months).This upsurge is mainly due to the development in home delivery.

The raw number of business births totted up during the last twelve months went up (+4.3%). Sole proprietorships’ births increased sharply (+6.8%) while companies’ births declined (–2.2%).

* 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-September 2020 January-September 2019
Total 21.5 4.3 598,941 600,361
Companies 15.2 -2.2 152,886 161,566
Sole proprietorships 23.7 6.8 446,055 438,795
  • *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 September 2020, in raw data, the share of sole proprietorships in the businesses births over the last twelve months rose slightly to 74.2%.

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))
Jul.20 Aug.20 Sep.20
Companies 26.0 25.9 25.8
Sole proprietorships 74.0 74.1 74.2
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Revisions

The variation in the overall number of business births in August 2020 has been lowered by 0.4 points to +0.0% instead of +0.4%, 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 8942 5963
2009-02 9692 7782
2009-03 10544 11132
2009-04 10848 11019
2009-05 11747 11504
2009-06 10891 11112
2009-07 11259 10937
2009-08 11014 10915
2009-09 11038 10961
2009-10 11234 11026
2009-11 11225 11429
2009-12 11716 11575
2010-01 11617 11706
2010-02 11632 11746
2010-03 11806 13342
2010-04 11015 11723
2010-05 11068 11557
2010-06 9900 9918
2010-07 10336 11278
2010-08 10690 10855
2010-09 10724 11007
2010-10 10789 11796
2010-11 10259 11371
2010-12 9495 9632
2011-01 9526 9473
2011-02 9785 9602
2011-03 9282 9388
2011-04 9805 9496
2011-05 9423 9548
2011-06 9616 9616
2011-07 9971 10444
2011-08 9369 9548
2011-09 10016 9670
2011-10 9226 9290
2011-11 9795 10971
2011-12 9753 9591
2012-01 9730 9660
2012-02 9192 9278
2012-03 9395 9895
2012-04 9257 9560
2012-05 9434 9563
2012-06 9552 9552
2012-07 9404 9688
2012-08 9665 10087
2012-09 9277 9330
2012-10 9505 9619
2012-11 9173 9225
2012-12 9342 9298
2013-01 9064 9215
2013-02 9106 9363
2013-03 9179 9337
2013-04 9153 9399
2013-05 9337 9463
2013-06 9204 9370
2013-07 9252 9226
2013-08 9182 9237
2013-09 9339 9477
2013-10 9178 9551
2013-11 9113 9719
2013-12 9036 9482
2014-01 9180 9723
2014-02 8970 9683
2014-03 9090 9624
2014-04 9132 9827
2014-05 9150 9711
2014-06 8761 9758
2014-07 9177 9946
2014-08 9133 10166
2014-09 8809 9961
2014-10 8960 9675
2014-11 8941 9681
2014-12 9012 9754
2015-01 8007 9142
2015-02 8265 9603
2015-03 8316 9608
2015-04 8256 9507
2015-05 8197 9478
2015-06 8315 9574
2015-07 8114 9661
2015-08 8096 9761
2015-09 8167 9637
2015-10 8085 9836
2015-11 8048 9785
2015-12 7851 10000
2016-01 8344 10156
2016-02 8287 10297
2016-03 8059 10162
2016-04 8309 10533
2016-05 8395 10682
2016-06 7979 10314
2016-07 7829 10366
2016-08 7911 10557
2016-09 8435 10699
2016-10 7490 10016
2016-11 8122 10815
2016-12 7794 10216
2017-01 7685 10663
2017-02 7672 10734
2017-03 7835 11037
2017-04 7909 10991
2017-05 7888 11353
2017-06 8073 11617
2017-07 8409 12635
2017-08 8590 11911
2017-09 8483 11831
2017-10 8848 11877
2017-11 8862 13406
2017-12 8982 12137
2018-01 8885 13288
2018-02 8874 13489
2018-03 8825 13647
2018-04 8671 13504
2018-05 9162 14247
2018-06 8958 14003
2018-07 8763 13751
2018-08 8945 13737
2018-09 9202 13720
2018-10 9360 14881
2018-11 9110 13446
2018-12 9090 13509
2019-01 9720 16447
2019-02 10055 15953
2019-03 10007 16224
2019-04 9718 16175
2019-05 9674 16189
2019-06 9711 16436
2019-07 9901 16781
2019-08 9928 15656
2019-09 10096 17018
2019-10 10061 17303
2019-11 10719 17454
2019-12 10313 16732
2020-01 10648 17292
2020-02 10437 15961
2020-03 6807 13631
2020-04 4798 9412
2020-05 8975 13454
2020-06 11382 17052
2020-07 13680 17379
2020-08 13338 17440
2020-09 13165 18222
  • * 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 4748 621
2009-02 5943 673
2009-03 6225 675
2009-04 6566 715
2009-05 6842 755
2009-06 6913 727
2009-07 7013 712
2009-08 7025 718
2009-09 6987 672
2009-10 7350 736
2009-11 7558 677
2009-12 8044 732
2010-01 7944 844
2010-02 8568 811
2010-03 8351 881
2010-04 7909 797
2010-05 7557 810
2010-06 6452 742
2010-07 7455 776
2010-08 7362 764
2010-09 7484 814
2010-10 7936 816
2010-11 7415 779
2010-12 6752 772
2011-01 6416 779
2011-02 6793 763
2011-03 6577 783
2011-04 6791 806
2011-05 6722 765
2011-06 6561 773
2011-07 6818 777
2011-08 6927 895
2011-09 6878 794
2011-10 6881 804
2011-11 7119 771
2011-12 7090 767
2012-01 7093 771
2012-02 6927 777
2012-03 7219 799
2012-04 7121 792
2012-05 6646 796
2012-06 7347 865
2012-07 7328 895
2012-08 7376 892
2012-09 7110 789
2012-10 6969 836
2012-11 6565 807
2012-12 6585 815
2013-01 6520 835
2013-02 6593 904
2013-03 6711 894
2013-04 6623 797
2013-05 6922 963
2013-06 6590 930
2013-07 6476 923
2013-08 6429 891
2013-09 6448 975
2013-10 6621 938
2013-11 6654 959
2013-12 6905 1021
2014-01 6892 1084
2014-02 6959 1105
2014-03 6592 1039
2014-04 6640 1056
2014-05 6201 1030
2014-06 6347 1081
2014-07 6338 1196
2014-08 6198 1314
2014-09 6063 1166
2014-10 6057 1239
2014-11 6030 2262
2014-12 5944 1324
2015-01 5474 1091
2015-02 5358 1212
2015-03 5610 1905
2015-04 5364 1654
2015-05 5276 1421
2015-06 5349 1566
2015-07 5233 1651
2015-08 5194 1772
2015-09 5476 2060
2015-10 5187 2320
2015-11 5178 2333
2015-12 5091 2499
2016-01 5408 2381
2016-02 5237 2408
2016-03 5040 2470
2016-04 5465 2712
2016-05 5245 2931
2016-06 5138 2949
2016-07 5139 3009
2016-08 5036 2703
2016-09 5110 3166
2016-10 4850 3055
2016-11 4821 2919
2016-12 4913 2963
2017-01 4980 3175
2017-02 4924 3396
2017-03 4984 3361
2017-04 4971 3063
2017-05 4947 3196
2017-06 4888 3327
2017-07 5221 3517
2017-08 5010 3488
2017-09 5047 3219
2017-10 5337 3497
2017-11 5462 4347
2017-12 5552 4606
2018-01 5262 4744
2018-02 5576 4583
2018-03 5622 4939
2018-04 5614 5550
2018-05 5661 6326
2018-06 5686 6053
2018-07 5382 5962
2018-08 5711 6643
2018-09 5715 6355
2018-10 5750 6640
2018-11 5708 6789
2018-12 5911 6613
2019-01 6062 7053
2019-02 6122 7506
2019-03 6198 8054
2019-04 6181 7295
2019-05 6359 7160
2019-06 6727 7197
2019-07 6822 6393
2019-08 6892 6721
2019-09 7075 6783
2019-10 7037 7007
2019-11 7788 6181
2019-12 6990 6119
2020-01 7195 6393
2020-02 7305 6109
2020-03 4747 4621
2020-04 2984 2891
2020-05 4563 6401
2020-06 6839 11056
2020-07 7549 11249
2020-08 7889 11137
2020-09 7877 11236
  • * 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

SA-WDA *
Number of monthly business set-ups (SA-WDA *)
NA Jul.20 Aug.20 Sep.20
Total 81,883 81,912 83,825
Industry BE 3,610 3,726 3,633
Of which Manufacturing C 3,265 3,278 3,275
Construction FZ 7,549 7,889 7,877
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 28,973 28,649 28,790
Trade G 13,680 13,338 13,165
Transportation and storage H 11,249 11,137 11,236
Accommodation and food service activities I 4,045 4,174 4,388
Information and communication JZ 3,717 3,667 3,796
Financial and insurance activities KZ 1,826 1,881 1,933
Real estate activities LZ 3,406 3,464 3,586
Business support activities MN 17,379 17,440 18,222
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 7,443 7,513 8,221
Other services activities RS 7,982 7,683 7,768
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source : Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Fluctuation in the number of business set-ups

In %
Fluctuation in the number of business set-ups (In %)
NA Sep.20/Aug.20 Moving total % change**
SA-WDA * over 3 months over 12 months
Total 2.3 21.5 4.3
Industry BE -2.5 8.4 11.9
Of which Manufacturing C -0.1 10.2 15.8
Construction FZ -0.1 13.4 3.4
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 0.5 45.8 4.0
Trade G -1.3 35.0 5.6
Transportation and storage H 0.9 70.2 4.6
Accommodation and food service activities I 5.1 30.0 -2.1
Information and communication JZ 3.5 12.1 6.3
Financial and insurance activities KZ 2.8 10.1 6.5
Real estate activities LZ 3.5 32.0 9.7
Business support activities MN 4.5 7.6 1.6
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 9.4 10.7 -1.3
Other services activities RS 1.1 19.6 11.9
  • * 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.

Otherwise, as it was indicated last month, Insee has identified an error related to the sharing of births between conventional sole proprietorships and self-managed micro-entrepreneurs (without affecting the total number of births and the breakdown between companies and sole proprietorships). Actions have been taken to ensure proper monitoring of micro-entrepreneurs’ registrations from early 2021, with correction of time series since January 2015. Until then, the sharing of business births between micro-entrepreneurs and conventional sole proprietorships will no longer be disseminated. Learn more (in French) .

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

Next issue: 18 November 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.

Otherwise, as it was indicated last month, Insee has identified an error related to the sharing of births between conventional sole proprietorships and self-managed micro-entrepreneurs (without affecting the total number of births and the breakdown between companies and sole proprietorships). Actions have been taken to ensure proper monitoring of micro-entrepreneurs’ registrations from early 2021, with correction of time series since January 2015. Until then, the sharing of business births between micro-entrepreneurs and conventional sole proprietorships will no longer be disseminated. Learn more (in French) .

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

Next issue: 18 November 2020 at 8:45am

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