Business Demography 2021

Number of Active Enterprises in the Business Economy 365,766
Number of Persons Engaged in the Business Economy 2,305,318

Enterprise Status
35,783 Births
30,380 Deaths

SME share of Business Economy
99.8% Active Enterprises
60.6% Persons Engaged

Number of Enterprises by employment size class
Under 10 – 338,100 (92.4%)
10-19 – 14,322 (3.9%)
20-49 – 8,392 (2.3%)
50-249 – 4,089 (1.1%)
250 and over – 863 (0.2%)

Number of Persons Engaged by sector
Other Services - 1,376,031 (59.7%)
Wholesale & Retail Trade - 383,020 (16.6%)   
Industry - 271,262 (11.8%)
Construction - 170,444 (7.4%)
Financial & Insurance - 104,561 (4.5%)