Release

Business Demography, UK: 2021

Release date: 17 November 2022 9:30am

Summary

This statistical bulletin contains headline figures and commentary from the Business Demography 2021 publication. This product includes births, deaths and survivals of UK enterprises. The active stock of businesses is also shown, so that birth and death rates can be calculated.

Publications

Data

  • Business demography, UK

    Annual data on births, deaths and survival of businesses in the UK, by geographical area and Standard Industrial Classification 2007: SIC 2007 groups.

Methodology

  • Business demography QMI

    Quality and methodology information for UK business demography, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.

Contact details

Name

Becky Shaw

Email

idbrdas@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 1633 456902

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest