Long abstract

OECD Country Statistical Profiles 2008

Source: The OECD Factbook 2008. More than 100 indicators covering a wide range of areas for each of the 30 member countries, Brazil, China, India and South Africa.  Further data is also available for countries currently going through the OECD accession process – Chile, Estonia, Israel, Slovenia and Russian Federation.

New!

This report presents indicators of firm births, deaths, high-growth firms, gazelles, etc., all capture different aspects of entrepreneurship and different types of entrepreneurs.

Measuring entrepreneurship: a digest of indicators, 2009 edition

Focus

The Manual includes indicators that are essential for comparability across OECD countries and the investigation of entrepreneurship, namely indicators of employer enterprises, and, importantly, high growth enterprises, particularly young high-growth enterprises, referred to here as "gazelles".

Eurostat-OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics