Entrepreneurship, Industry and Services Statistics

The OECD publishes a wide range of detailed structural and short-term industry and services statistics to meet economists and policy makers' needs for comparable statistics and policy-relevant indicators in industry and services so that they have a more precise knowledge of economic developments.

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Start-up rates begin to show signs of slowdown in most OECD countries in 2011

14-Nov-2011

Start-ups are an important source of job creation in OECD economies. At the height of the global economic crisis, start-up rates fell precipitously in all OECD countries where data is available. In subsequent quarters, start-up rates began picking up, toward pre-crisis levels, but in recent quarters this momentum appears to have stalled. With few exceptions, start-up rates are once again beginning to show signs of a slowdown across the OECD.

Business demography statistics

Latest data on birth rates (business entries), death rates (business exits) survival rates, or High-Growth enterprises rate for most OECD countries. Indicators are broken down by industry.

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