Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

SIC 2008 Legal forms Periods Enterprises Total (aantal) Enterprises Births (aantal) Enterprises Deaths (aantal) Enterprise population Persons employed (aantal) Enterprise population Employees (aantal) Newly born enterprises Persons employed (aantal) Newly born enterprises Employees (aantal) Non-surviving enterprises Persons employed (aantal) Non-surviving enterprises Employees (aantal)
10 Manufacture of food products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
10 Manufacture of food products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
10 Manufacture of food products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
10 Manufacture of food products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
105 Manufacture of dairy products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
105 Manufacture of dairy products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
105 Manufacture of dairy products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
105 Manufacture of dairy products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
106 Grain milling and starch products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
106 Grain milling and starch products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
106 Grain milling and starch products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
106 Grain milling and starch products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
107 Manufacture of bakery products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
107 Manufacture of bakery products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
107 Manufacture of bakery products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
107 Manufacture of bakery products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
12 Manufacture of tobacco products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
12 Manufacture of tobacco products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
12 Manufacture of tobacco products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
12 Manufacture of tobacco products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
120 Manufacture of tobacco products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
120 Manufacture of tobacco products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
120 Manufacture of tobacco products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
120 Manufacture of tobacco products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
151 Manufacture of leather products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
151 Manufacture of leather products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
151 Manufacture of leather products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
151 Manufacture of leather products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
16 Manufacture of wood products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 3,238 318 102 16,792 14,615 213 62 53 .
16 Manufacture of wood products Sole proprietorship 2021* 1,927 229 83 1,975 397 115 . 40 .
16 Manufacture of wood products Limited liability enterprises 2021* 891 56 2 13,884 13,781 67 61 0 0
16 Manufacture of wood products Partnership, etc. 2021* 420 33 17 933 438 31 . 13 0
162 Manufacture of products of wood Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
162 Manufacture of products of wood Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
162 Manufacture of products of wood Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
162 Manufacture of products of wood Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
18 Printing and reproduction Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
18 Printing and reproduction Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
18 Printing and reproduction Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
18 Printing and reproduction Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
182 Reproduction of recorded media Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
182 Reproduction of recorded media Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
182 Reproduction of recorded media Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
182 Reproduction of recorded media Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
191 Manufacture of coke oven products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
191 Manufacture of coke oven products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
191 Manufacture of coke oven products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
191 Manufacture of coke oven products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
202 Manufacture agrochemical products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
202 Manufacture agrochemical products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
202 Manufacture agrochemical products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
202 Manufacture agrochemical products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 1,424 65 36 33,591 33,149 33 12 21 10
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products Sole proprietorship 2021* 319 27 16 374 111 13 0 . .
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products Limited liability enterprises 2021* 930 32 7 32,495 32,433 13 . . .
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products Partnership, etc. 2021* 175 6 13 722 605 8 . 7 .
221 Manufacture of rubber products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
221 Manufacture of rubber products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
221 Manufacture of rubber products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
221 Manufacture of rubber products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
222 Manufacture of plastic products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
222 Manufacture of plastic products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
222 Manufacture of plastic products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
222 Manufacture of plastic products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
232 Manufacture of refractory products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
232 Manufacture of refractory products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
232 Manufacture of refractory products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
232 Manufacture of refractory products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
234 Manufacture other ceramic products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
234 Manufacture other ceramic products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
234 Manufacture other ceramic products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
234 Manufacture other ceramic products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
239 Manufacture other mineral products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
239 Manufacture other mineral products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
239 Manufacture other mineral products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
239 Manufacture other mineral products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 14,744 1,175 403 116,952 107,469 746 173 254 76
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products Sole proprietorship 2021* 9,220 1,012 324 9,071 1,290 520 . 142 .
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products Limited liability enterprises 2021* 4,307 114 23 104,161 103,706 162 149 . .
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products Partnership, etc. 2021* 1,217 49 56 3,720 2,473 65 . . .
25 Manufacture of metal products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
25 Manufacture of metal products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
25 Manufacture of metal products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
25 Manufacture of metal products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
259 Manufacture of other metal products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
259 Manufacture of other metal products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
259 Manufacture of other metal products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
259 Manufacture of other metal products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
26 Manufacture of electronic products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* 1,680 134 75 27,087 26,665 127 . 22 7
26 Manufacture of electronic products Sole proprietorship 2021* 540 65 26 326 38 37 0 7 0
26 Manufacture of electronic products Limited liability enterprises 2021* 862 63 8 25,812 25,743 87 . 0 0
26 Manufacture of electronic products Partnership, etc. 2021* 278 6 41 949 885 3 . 15 7
32 Manufacture of other products Total legal forms all nationalities 2021* . . . . . . . . .
32 Manufacture of other products Sole proprietorship 2021* . . . . . . . . .
32 Manufacture of other products Limited liability enterprises 2021* . . . . . . . . .
32 Manufacture of other products Partnership, etc. 2021* . . . . . . . . .
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Dataset is not available.


This table includes information on business demography according to the European standard. Figures in this table are also submitted in this form to Eurostat. Information concerns the population of active enterprises, enterprise births and deaths, and the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year survivors after birth, broken down by size class based on number of employees and by the National Classification of Economic Activity 2008 (NCEA 2008, based on NACE Rev 2.0). Data also includes persons employed and employees in active enterprises, births and deaths, as well as persons employed for surviving births at the start and end of the survival period.

Data available from: 2010

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final for 2010 to 2020. The figures for 2021 are provisional.
Only the data on Dissolved companies for 2021 will be adjusted.

Changes as of February 9, 2024:
The provisional figures for 2021 have been added.

Two industry breakdowns have been added:
• B-S excluding O and excluding S94
• G-S excluding O and excluding S94
• K Financial institutions

When will new figures be released?
Figures on a new reporting year (T – 2) will be published in July of the current year T.

Description topics

Enterprises
Total
Enterprise:
The actual transactor in the production process characterised by independence in deciding on that process and in offering its products to third parties.

It follows from this definition, and in particular from the element of independence, that an enterprise can comprise more than one establishment, but also more than one legal unit. (Legal units include both natural and legal persons.) This is the case when the separate establishments or legal units do not operate independently. Conversely, it is possible to distinguish between different parts within a legal unit that operate independently in terms of production. These then constitute as many enterprises as defined. The latter is especially the case for larger groups with diverse activities.
When a unit thus defined extends over several countries, the Dutch part will be considered as a whole company for the sake of national statistics.

In official CBS terminology the enterprise as defined here is called the enterprise unit (BE), so that there is no confusion with the term enterprise used in common parlance, which is not very precise in this respect.

The statistical unit enterprise is an operationalisation of the kind-of-activity unit, as defined by Eurostat. This definition combines two requirements that may conflict: contributing to one activity versus corresponding to one or more operational units. The Netherlands gives priority to the second requirement when operationalising to the statistical enterprise unit.
Births
An enterprise birth is the creation of a new enterprise.

This means that economic criteria for an enterprise must be met: there must be information on employment or turnover of the enterprise. Furthermore, it is important that the enterprise is actually new. The continuation of one or more existing enterprises is therefore not an enterprise birth.

There is no enterprise birth in the case of
- enterprises that are created as a result of a merger, division or demerger;
- takeover or privatisation of part of a company;
- change of name;
- change of legal form;
- change of ownership;
- gradual change of activity;
- relocation;
- reactivation.
Deaths
An enterprise death is the termination of an existing enterprise.

This means that there is no question of a significant part of the activities being continued by another enterprise. An enterprise death only occurs when the enterprise (with the associated employment) no longer belongs to the enterprise population. The best-known example of this is bankruptcy.

There is no enterprise death in the case of:
- enterprises that disappear as a result of a merger, division or demerger;
- takeover or privatisation of part of an enterprise;
- change of name;
- change of legal form;
- change of owner;
- gradual change of activity
- relocation;
- reactivation.
Enterprise population
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Newly born enterprises
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Non-surviving enterprises
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.