Employer business demography, European standard, size class, SIC2008

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Employer business demography, European standard, size class, SIC2008
SIC 2008	Persons employed	Periods	Employer enterprises Total (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 1 year survival (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 2 year survival (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 3 year survival (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 4 year survival (number)	Newly born employer enterprise survivals 5 year survival (number)	Employer enterprise population Persons employed (number)	Employer enterprise population Employees (number)	Newly born employer enterprises Persons employed (number)	Newly born employer enterprises Employees (number)	Non-surviving employer enterprises Persons employed (number)	Non-surviving employer enterprises Employees (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 1 year (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 2 years (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 3 years (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 4 years (number)	Persons employed in employer enterprises surviving 5 years (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 1 year (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 2 year (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 3 year (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 4 year (number)	Persons employed in birth year of employer enterprise surviving 5 year (number)
10 Manufacture of food products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
10 Manufacture of food products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
10 Manufacture of food products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
10 Manufacture of food products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
105 Manufacture of dairy products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
105 Manufacture of dairy products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
105 Manufacture of dairy products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
105 Manufacture of dairy products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
106 Grain milling and starch products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
107 Manufacture of bakery products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
107 Manufacture of bakery products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
107 Manufacture of bakery products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
107 Manufacture of bakery products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
120 Manufacture of tobacco products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
120 Manufacture of tobacco products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
120 Manufacture of tobacco products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
120 Manufacture of tobacco products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
151 Manufacture of leather products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
151 Manufacture of leather products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
151 Manufacture of leather products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
151 Manufacture of leather products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
16 Manufacture of wood products	Total	2023*	957	53	55	48	55	35	15,521	15,521	83	83	189	189	161	260	513	295	261	110	130	200	135	150
16 Manufacture of wood products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	433	46	50	42	51	30	875	875	.	.	88	88	100	158	222	.	161	62	74	95	.	78
16 Manufacture of wood products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	177	6	2	2	3	3	1,221	1,221	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
16 Manufacture of wood products	10 employees or more	2023*	347	1	3	4	1	2	13,425	13,425	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
162 Manufacture of products of wood	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
162 Manufacture of products of wood	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
162 Manufacture of products of wood	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
162 Manufacture of products of wood	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
18 Printing and reproduction	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
182 Reproduction of recorded media	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
182 Reproduction of recorded media	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
182 Reproduction of recorded media	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
182 Reproduction of recorded media	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
191 Manufacture of coke oven products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
191 Manufacture of coke oven products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
191 Manufacture of coke oven products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
191 Manufacture of coke oven products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
202 Manufacture agrochemical products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
202 Manufacture agrochemical products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
202 Manufacture agrochemical products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
202 Manufacture agrochemical products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products	Total	2023*	903	24	19	27	55	20	33,871	33,871	37	37	120	120	95	57	150	242	213	68	36	70	109	124
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	291	22	19	25	53	16	581	581	37	37	.	.	.	57	.	.	.	.	36	.	.	.
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	144	1	0	2	1	1	948	948	0	0	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products	10 employees or more	2023*	468	1	0	0	1	3	32,342	32,342	0	0	.	.	.	0	0	.	.	.	0	0	.	.
221 Manufacture of rubber products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
221 Manufacture of rubber products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
221 Manufacture of rubber products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
221 Manufacture of rubber products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
222 Manufacture of plastic products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
222 Manufacture of plastic products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
222 Manufacture of plastic products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
222 Manufacture of plastic products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232 Manufacture of refractory products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232 Manufacture of refractory products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232 Manufacture of refractory products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
232 Manufacture of refractory products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
234 Manufacture other ceramic products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
234 Manufacture other ceramic products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
234 Manufacture other ceramic products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
234 Manufacture other ceramic products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
239 Manufacture other mineral products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
239 Manufacture other mineral products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
239 Manufacture other mineral products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
239 Manufacture other mineral products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	Total	2023*	4,430	159	135	149	205	120	108,503	108,498	338	338	544	544	765	609	1,128	1,305	1,036	366	367	615	987	588
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	1,765	147	124	128	172	104	3,578	3,574	216	216	279	279	294	328	446	568	436	185	172	265	328	253
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	764	5	7	9	17	8	5,202	5,202	38	38	66	66	114	.	95	147	215	29	45	61	104	55
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products	10 employees or more	2023*	1,901	7	4	12	16	8	99,723	99,722	85	85	198	198	357	.	587	590	385	152	150	289	555	279
25 Manufacture of metal products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25 Manufacture of metal products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25 Manufacture of metal products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
25 Manufacture of metal products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
259 Manufacture of other metal products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
259 Manufacture of other metal products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
259 Manufacture of other metal products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
259 Manufacture of other metal products	10 employees or more	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
26 Manufacture of electronic products	Total	2023*	744	35	43	34	110	19	28,094	28,094	65	65	120	120	136	719	151	373	729	88	113	73	241	170
26 Manufacture of electronic products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	333	29	39	33	103	18	611	611	.	.	38	38	69	.	.	315	.	43	50	.	188	.
26 Manufacture of electronic products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	130	4	2	0	4	0	875	875	.	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	0	.	.	0	.	0
26 Manufacture of electronic products	10 employees or more	2023*	281	2	2	1	3	1	26,608	26,608	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
32 Manufacture of other products	Total	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
32 Manufacture of other products	1 to 4 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
32 Manufacture of other products	5 to 9 employees	2023*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
32 Manufacture of other products	10 employees or more	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 employers, employer births and deaths, broken down by legal form 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 these enterprises.

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

Employer enterprises

Total: Employer:
Enterprises with employees. An enterprise is the actual transactor in the production process characterised by independence of decisions regarding that process and by offering its products to third parties. An enterprise is defined as an employer when in one year at least 0.5 FTE of labour force are on the payroll, excluding the director.

It follows from this definition and in particular from the independence element 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 individual 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.
activities. When a unit thus defined extends over several countries, the Dutch part is regarded 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 unit enterprise.

Newly born employer enterprise survivals

1 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place in the year preceding the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

2 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place two years prior to the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

3 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place three years prior to the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

4 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place four years prior to the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

5 year survival: Employer enterprise births that took place five years prior to the reporting year of enterprises and are still active.

Employer 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 employer 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 employer 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.

Persons employed

in employer enterprises surviving

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.
This concerns persons employed in surviving employer enterprises in the current reporting year.

1 year: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born in the year preceding the reporting year.

2 years: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born two years prior to the reporting year.

3 years: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born three years prior to the reporting year.

4 years: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born four years prior to the reporting year.

5 years: The number of persons employed in the current reporting year of surviving employer enterprises which were born five years prior to the reporting year.

in birth year of employer enterprise

surviving 1 year: The number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born in the year preceding the reporting year.

surviving 2 year: The number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born two years prior to the reporting year.

surviving 3 year: The number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born three years prior to the reporting year.

surviving 4 year: Tthe number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born four years prior to the reporting year.

surviving 5 year: The number of persons employed in the year of birth of surviving employer enterprises which were born five years prior to the reporting year.