Entrepreneurs
Here you can see the development in the number of enterprise births and deaths and how they are allocated across activities and types of ownership. You can also find statistics on high-growth enterprises.
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An enterprise that becomes active for the first time, or becomes active again after minimum two years of inactivity.
An enterprise that ceases to be active.
An enterprise that is continually active over a set period of years, after it has been characterised as an enterprise birth.
A person who exercises influence on a newly started enterprise, either by himself or in association with others.
An enterprise that achieves sustained growth in full time employees of minimum 20 percent each year, over a three-year period, and is characterized as an enterprise birth, one or two years before the high growth period.
Selected statistics on Entrepreneurs
Change in the number of enterprise births
The Central Business Register is the basis of the statistics.
Data elements are obtained from the General enterprise statistics.
Allocation of enterprise births by activity
The Central Business Register is the basis of the statistics.
Data elements are obtained from the General enterprise statistics.
Type of ownership for enterprise births
The Central Business Register is the basis of the statistics.
Data elements are obtained from the General enterprise statistics.
Change in the number of young high-growth enterprises
The statistics is based on the: Business Demography.
Change in the number of enterprise deaths
The Central Business Register is the basis of the statistics.
Data elements are obtained from the General enterprise statistics.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose of the Business Demography is to provide information about the development of enterprise births and deaths as well as the survival of new enterprises over a period of five years. The statistics is comparable from 2019 onwards.
The statistics High growth enterprises in Denmark was published the first time in 2008. High growth enterprise as well as Gazelles were at that time measured. However, later the statistics was limited to only include Gazelles. The purpose of the statistics "Gazelles in Denmark" is to illustrate the development in the number of gazelles and jobs created in the growth period.