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Informations rapidesRebound in business births in April 2021 Enterprise births - April 2021

In April 2021, the number of business births for all enterprises rebounded (+1.8% after –0.6% in March seasonally and working-day adjusted). Micro-entrepreneurs' registrations increased (+0.8% after –1.9%) as well as conventionnal business births (+3.8% after +1.9%).

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In March and April 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.

In April 2021, the number of business births for all enterprises rebounded (+1.8% after –0.6% in March seasonally and working-day adjusted). Micro-entrepreneurs' registrations increased (+0.8% after –1.9%) as well as conventionnal business births (+3.8% after +1.9%).

Business 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 49460 21019
2009-10 50225 21175
2009-11 50865 21995
2009-12 55458 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 49739 21523
2010-08 50613 22447
2010-09 49646 21973
2010-10 52845 21890
2010-11 50279 21765
2010-12 45848 21254
2011-01 44770 21389
2011-02 45896 21669
2011-03 44038 21377
2011-04 45434 21533
2011-05 44657 21569
2011-06 45285 20534
2011-07 47369 21740
2011-08 45274 21476
2011-09 46357 21660
2011-10 44463 20435
2011-11 48611 22459
2011-12 46970 21700
2012-01 47179 21025
2012-02 45390 20389
2012-03 46671 20594
2012-04 45680 20118
2012-05 45473 19432
2012-06 46847 20124
2012-07 46680 20317
2012-08 47574 20392
2012-09 45372 19735
2012-10 46238 20271
2012-11 43368 19400
2012-12 43922 20322
2013-01 44449 21306
2013-02 45171 22022
2013-03 45224 21943
2013-04 44939 21804
2013-05 46087 22568
2013-06 44855 22007
2013-07 44022 21655
2013-08 44017 21673
2013-09 45540 22237
2013-10 45537 22650
2013-11 45694 22419
2013-12 45792 22489
2014-01 46276 22318
2014-02 45904 22533
2014-03 45325 22469
2014-04 46428 23139
2014-05 45655 22264
2014-06 45386 22319
2014-07 46747 22387
2014-08 47076 22744
2014-09 45980 21680
2014-10 45382 21680
2014-11 45948 21815
2014-12 46734 22585
2015-01 42463 20397
2015-02 43683 20122
2015-03 44444 20339
2015-04 43574 20310
2015-05 42919 20158
2015-06 44045 20562
2015-07 43114 20672
2015-08 43480 20856
2015-09 44382 21130
2015-10 44017 20916
2015-11 43898 21224
2015-12 44976 21593
2016-01 45961 22342
2016-02 45567 22095
2016-03 45442 21786
2016-04 46853 22032
2016-05 47406 22685
2016-06 45805 22123
2016-07 45979 22304
2016-08 46188 22222
2016-09 46841 22291
2016-10 44823 21430
2016-11 46807 22985
2016-12 45816 23650
2017-01 46390 22289
2017-02 46343 22232
2017-03 47064 22457
2017-04 47244 22774
2017-05 47465 22726
2017-06 48428 23129
2017-07 51759 23694
2017-08 50186 23391
2017-09 49858 22753
2017-10 51231 23885
2017-11 54076 25429
2017-12 55149 24317
2018-01 54594 23845
2018-02 55326 23942
2018-03 55452 23903
2018-04 56203 24095
2018-05 59103 25127
2018-06 58693 24704
2018-07 56759 24042
2018-08 59338 24656
2018-09 59504 24491
2018-10 61023 24790
2018-11 58479 24068
2018-12 59996 24625
2019-01 65444 25573
2019-02 65577 25900
2019-03 66812 26324
2019-04 66004 26185
2019-05 65525 26079
2019-06 68732 26606
2019-07 67613 26154
2019-08 68515 26042
2019-09 69740 26301
2019-10 69770 26229
2019-11 73504 30033
2019-12 75277 24207
2020-01 71316 26766
2020-02 69656 27488
2020-03 50912 19765
2020-04 33360 11755
2020-05 54643 18557
2020-06 75273 25203
2020-07 82195 27838
2020-08 83235 29395
2020-09 83354 28790
2020-10 83603 28845
2020-11 84491 28562
2020-12 82563 28535
2021-01 82363 28299
2021-02 85188 28618
2021-03 84667 29166
2021-04 86201 30268
  • * 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 *)
Jan-21 Feb-21 Mar-21 Apr-21
Total businesses set-ups 82,363 85,188 84,667 86,201
Variation [m-o-m] % -0.2 3.4 -0.6 1.8
Conventional businesses 28,299 28,618 29,166 30,268
Variation [m-o-m] % -0.8 1.1 1.9 3.8
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 54,064 56,571 55,501 55,933
Variation [m-o-m] % 0.1 4.6 -1.9 0.8
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • Source: Insee, REE (SIRENE)

Increase in business births in information and communication activities

In April 2021, the number of business births increased in information and communication activities (+10.6%), as well as manufacturing activities (+9.8%), in transport and storage activities (+9.2%) and in financial and insurance acitivities (+9.0%).

Sharp increase in business births over the three last months

The raw number of business births totted up during the last three months (February to April) increased sharply in comparison with the same months one year ago (+71.2%). 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 (+82.7%), as well as companies’s births (+59.8%) and conventionnal sole proprietorships’ births (+36.0%).

Transportation and storage activities was the sector that contributed the most to the overall rise (+31,200 business births, which comes to a contribution of +19.1 points)*. Within it, the strongest increase was in other postal and mail activities (+30,000 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 (+24.8%). Micro-entrepreneurs' registrations increased more strongly (+31.8%) than companies’ births (+18.8%), while sole proprietorships’ births declined slightly (–0.2%).

* 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 – April 2021 January – April 2020
Total 71.2 24.8 364,835 245,184
Companies 59.8 18.8 94,744 66,654
Conventional sole proprietorships 36.0 -0.2 31,829 27,263
Self-mamaged micro-entrepreneurs 82.7 31.8 238,262 151,267
  • *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 April 2021, in raw data, the share of micro-entrepreneurs’ in the businesses births over the last twelve months is virtually stable and represents 65.6%.

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))
Feb-21 Mar-21 Apr-21
Companies 25.4 25.3 25.4
Sole proprietorships excluding self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 9.2 9.1 8.9
Self-managed micro-entrepreneurs 65.4 65.7 65.6
  • Source: Insee, REE (issu de SIRENE)

Revisions

The variation in the overall number of business births in March 2021 has been increased by 0.2 points to –0.6% instead of –0.8%, 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 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 10653 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 9203 9522
2012-03 9445 9865
2012-04 9243 9552
2012-05 9454 9429
2012-06 9511 9619
2012-07 9369 9557
2012-08 9653 10178
2012-09 9227 9462
2012-10 9399 9565
2012-11 9073 8984
2012-12 9267 9191
2013-01 9097 9254
2013-02 9179 9466
2013-03 9194 9559
2013-04 9194 9444
2013-05 9464 9480
2013-06 9223 9316
2013-07 9122 9105
2013-08 9112 9143
2013-09 9228 9486
2013-10 9208 9478
2013-11 9167 9649
2013-12 9108 9605
2014-01 9201 9814
2014-02 9061 9706
2014-03 9093 9577
2014-04 9205 9975
2014-05 9019 9842
2014-06 8769 9734
2014-07 9253 10006
2014-08 9134 10235
2014-09 8778 9920
2014-10 8881 9645
2014-11 8899 9563
2014-12 8908 10054
2015-01 7963 9447
2015-02 8367 9621
2015-03 8361 9613
2015-04 8310 9441
2015-05 8215 9128
2015-06 8264 9503
2015-07 8085 9531
2015-08 8043 9471
2015-09 8050 9649
2015-10 8046 9923
2015-11 7966 9681
2015-12 8114 10080
2016-01 8321 10328
2016-02 8306 10216
2016-03 8228 10189
2016-04 8283 10609
2016-05 8365 10516
2016-06 7989 10118
2016-07 7813 10514
2016-08 7925 10594
2016-09 8328 10564
2016-10 7458 10129
2016-11 8080 10733
2016-12 7801 10506
2017-01 7591 10625
2017-02 7714 10633
2017-03 7803 10889
2017-04 8018 11026
2017-05 7912 11294
2017-06 8169 11663
2017-07 8498 12569
2017-08 8609 11915
2017-09 8396 12002
2017-10 8843 12012
2017-11 8837 13142
2017-12 9024 13212
2018-01 8745 12990
2018-02 8898 13247
2018-03 8874 13349
2018-04 8681 13471
2018-05 9168 14063
2018-06 9046 14035
2018-07 8778 13819
2018-08 8980 14149
2018-09 9193 13960
2018-10 9295 14479
2018-11 8998 13515
2018-12 8919 14445
2019-01 9533 15527
2019-02 10050 15575
2019-03 10004 16268
2019-04 9773 16029
2019-05 9800 16079
2019-06 10020 16742
2019-07 9872 16673
2019-08 9992 16608
2019-09 10003 16854
2019-10 10046 16455
2019-11 10752 17611
2019-12 10273 18682
2020-01 10378 16721
2020-02 10490 15838
2020-03 6846 13328
2020-04 4801 9087
2020-05 9167 13440
2020-06 11776 16732
2020-07 13701 17449
2020-08 13336 18269
2020-09 12999 17510
2020-10 13091 18266
2020-11 13077 18422
2020-12 12673 18148
2021-01 12238 17824
2021-02 12049 18160
2021-03 11928 17976
2021-04 12202 19621
  • * 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 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 7853 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 2733
2016-09 5098 3104
2016-10 4731 3038
2016-11 4700 2934
2016-12 4740 2932
2017-01 5016 3211
2017-02 4954 3428
2017-03 5078 3273
2017-04 4951 3104
2017-05 5093 3140
2017-06 4974 3241
2017-07 5114 3682
2017-08 5080 3506
2017-09 4965 3218
2017-10 5322 3422
2017-11 5313 4331
2017-12 5482 4606
2018-01 5406 4790
2018-02 5609 4660
2018-03 5601 4839
2018-04 5614 5523
2018-05 5689 6107
2018-06 5718 6064
2018-07 5460 5936
2018-08 5741 6561
2018-09 5623 6439
2018-10 5780 6582
2018-11 5498 6924
2018-12 5668 6963
2019-01 6159 7270
2019-02 6151 7634
2019-03 6232 7658
2019-04 6224 7146
2019-05 6202 6930
2019-06 6853 7092
2019-07 6942 6499
2019-08 6900 6735
2019-09 6912 6842
2019-10 7054 6914
2019-11 7553 6446
2019-12 6810 6403
2020-01 7201 6669
2020-02 7263 6348
2020-03 4863 4307
2020-04 3049 2723
2020-05 4483 6293
2020-06 7052 10708
2020-07 7620 11255
2020-08 7984 11098
2020-09 7839 11224
2020-10 7707 11351
2020-11 8316 11429
2020-12 7837 10217
2021-01 7387 11446
2021-02 7523 13093
2021-03 7434 13709
2021-04 7497 13171
  • * 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 Feb-21 Mar-21 Apr-21
Total 85,188 84,667 86,201
Industry BE 3,891 4,034 3,992
Of which Manufacturing C 3,486 3,373 3,704
Construction FZ 7,523 7,434 7,497
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI 30,072 29,388 27,855
Trade G 12,049 11,928 12,202
Transportation and storage H 13,093 13,709 13,171
Accommodation and food service activities I 4,930 3,750 2,482
Information and communication JZ 4,307 4,296 4,752
Financial and insurance activities KZ 2,162 2,224 2,423
Real estate activities LZ 3,501 3,577 3,710
Business support activities MN 18,160 17,976 19,621
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 7,711 7,714 7,822
Other services activities RS 7,862 8,025 8,529
  • * Seasonally and working-day adjusted data
  • ** The evolution of the number of business births in accommodation and food services between February, March and April is mainly due to a change in the coding of the activity of meal deliverers (see warning).
  • 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 %) - ** Total of business start-ups during the last 3 or 12 months compared with the same months a year earlier
NA Apr. 21 / Mar.21 Moving total % change**
SA-WDA * over 3 months over 12 months
Total 1.8 71.2 24.8
Industry BE -1.0 57.4 18.4
Of which Manufacturing C 9.8 54.7 18.8
Construction FZ 0.8 49.7 15.4
Wholesale and retail trade, Transport, Accommodation and Food and beverage activities GI -5.2 114.8 49.3
Trade G 2.3 68.3 32.2
Transportation and storage H -3.9 213.4 87.0
Accommodation and food service activities I -33.8 71.9 26.0
Information and communication JZ 10.6 53.5 19.6
Financial and insurance activities KZ 9.0 61.2 20.7
Real estate activities LZ 3.7 84.2 32.9
Business support activities MN 9.2 47.9 12.3
Public administration and defence, education, human health and social work activities OQ 1.4 55.7 11.5
Other services activities RS 6.3 57.5 12.7
  • * 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 February, 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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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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