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New businesses registered

IC.BUS.NREG

Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Sudan, Bulgaria. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.

Latest value, Italy
115,6892024
Period covered
2006 - 202419 annual values
Highest of the compared countries
286,640China, 2024
Lowest of the compared countries
1,765South Sudan, 2016

8 countries compared, that is the maximum. Remove one to add another.

0100,000200,000300,000400,00020062011201520202024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • China286,6402024
  • Spain118,1932024
  • Italy115,6892024
  • Bulgaria42,7832024
  • Netherlands39,0552022
  • South Sudan1,7652016

Year by year values

Click the Year header to reverse the order. An empty cell means the World Bank publishes nothing for that country that year.

Annual values by country
ItalySpainNetherlandsChinaSouth SudanBulgaria
2024115,689118,193286,64042,783
2023107,066108,020368,96540,779
2022106,35799,13639,055289,69639,989
2021113,217101,207349,84939,544
202093,04579,37834,777262,94235,099
2019110,01793,94133,284243,65743,093
2018114,81295,26633,084259,52546,131
2017111,24194,21331,981256,45746,746
2016102,696100,76831,509271,5611,76546,965
2015100,62494,581237,34175942,634
201492,50494,138206,6991,96139,394
201384,14693,280133,9603,62740,090
201276,44687,084119,1334,43041,169
201180,79784,684118,4694,45936,440
201088,35779,818108,84893729,969
200984,08478,26392,9012,50531,723
200889,494103,77571,7833,22137,744
200792,887142,6071,176
200689,056148,666333

World Bank definition

New businesses registered (number)

New businesses registered are the number of new limited liability corporations (or its equivalent) registered in the calendar year.

Text published by the World Bank for indicator IC.BUS.NREG, reproduced unchanged.

The same indicator across Europe & Central Asia

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