Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

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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	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
10 Manufacture of food products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
10 Manufacture of food products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
10 Manufacture of food products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
105 Manufacture of dairy products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
105 Manufacture of dairy products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
105 Manufacture of dairy products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
105 Manufacture of dairy products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
107 Manufacture of bakery products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
107 Manufacture of bakery products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
107 Manufacture of bakery products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
107 Manufacture of bakery products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
120 Manufacture of tobacco products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
120 Manufacture of tobacco products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
120 Manufacture of tobacco products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
120 Manufacture of tobacco products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
151 Manufacture of leather products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
151 Manufacture of leather products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
151 Manufacture of leather products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
151 Manufacture of leather products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
16 Manufacture of wood products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	3,646	271	173	17,778	15,521	173	19	147	78
16 Manufacture of wood products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	2,222	195	121	2,000	.	116	0	57	.
16 Manufacture of wood products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	1,003	46	32	14,959	14,835	28	.	77	.
16 Manufacture of wood products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	421	30	20	819	.	30	.	12	0
162 Manufacture of products of wood	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
162 Manufacture of products of wood	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
162 Manufacture of products of wood	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
162 Manufacture of products of wood	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
182 Reproduction of recorded media	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
182 Reproduction of recorded media	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
182 Reproduction of recorded media	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
182 Reproduction of recorded media	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
191 Manufacture of coke oven products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
191 Manufacture of coke oven products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
191 Manufacture of coke oven products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
191 Manufacture of coke oven products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
202 Manufacture agrochemical products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
202 Manufacture agrochemical products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
202 Manufacture agrochemical products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
202 Manufacture agrochemical products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	1,498	79	55	34,286	33,871	45	16	76	.
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	361	27	23	360	99	13	0	.	0
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	969	32	19	33,186	33,121	17	13	.	.
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	168	20	13	741	651	15	3	6	0
221 Manufacture of rubber products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
221 Manufacture of rubber products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
221 Manufacture of rubber products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
221 Manufacture of rubber products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
222 Manufacture of plastic products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
222 Manufacture of plastic products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
222 Manufacture of plastic products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
222 Manufacture of plastic products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232 Manufacture of refractory products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232 Manufacture of refractory products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232 Manufacture of refractory products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232 Manufacture of refractory products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
234 Manufacture other ceramic products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
234 Manufacture other ceramic products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
234 Manufacture other ceramic products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
234 Manufacture other ceramic products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
239 Manufacture other mineral products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
239 Manufacture other mineral products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
239 Manufacture other mineral products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
239 Manufacture other mineral products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	16,303	1,240	591	118,702	108,498	816	139	366	126
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	10,631	1,066	439	9,496	1,009	617	.	204	.
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	4,453	115	83	106,163	105,669	139	118	120	.
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	1,219	59	69	3,043	1,820	61	.	42	8
25 Manufacture of metal products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25 Manufacture of metal products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25 Manufacture of metal products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25 Manufacture of metal products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
259 Manufacture of other metal products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
259 Manufacture of other metal products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
259 Manufacture of other metal products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
259 Manufacture of other metal products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
26 Manufacture of electronic products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	1,717	96	91	28,489	28,094	47	12	51	.
26 Manufacture of electronic products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	570	35	27	308	37	21	0	.	0
26 Manufacture of electronic products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	902	48	31	27,241	27,171	16	8	.	.
26 Manufacture of electronic products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	245	13	33	940	886	10	4	5	.
32 Manufacture of other products	Total legal forms all nationalities	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
32 Manufacture of other products	Sole proprietorship	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
32 Manufacture of other products	Limited liability enterprises	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
32 Manufacture of other products	Partnership, etc.	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Source: CBS.

Explanation of symbols

Table explanation

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 through 2022. The figures for 2023 are provisional.
Only the data on Dissolved companies for 2023 will be adjusted.

Changes as of September 4, 2025:
The provisional figures for 2023 have been added, and the figures for 2022 have been adjusted and finalized.

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.