Employer business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

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SIC 2008 Legal forms Employers Employers total (number) Employer population Persons employed in employer population (number) Employer population Employees in employer population (number) Employer births Persons employed in employer births (number) Employer births Employees in employer births (number) Employer deaths Persons employed in employer deaths (number) Employer deaths Employees in employer deaths (number)
64 Financial institutions, no insurance Total legal forms all nationalities 13,500 180,530 180,530 6,238 6,238 6,355 6,355
Sole proprietorship 5 44 44 . . . .
Limited liability enterprises 13,097 146,278 146,278 6,100 6,100 6,184 6,184
Partnership, etc. 398 34,208 34,208 . . . .
65 Insurance and pension funding Total legal forms all nationalities 268 40,988 40,988 19 19 17 17
Sole proprietorship 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Limited liability enterprises 121 31,451 31,451 . . 8 8
Partnership, etc. 147 9,537 9,537 . . 10 10
651 Insurance (no reinsurance) Total legal forms all nationalities . . . . . . .
Sole proprietorship . . . . . . .
Limited liability enterprises . . . . . . .
Partnership, etc. . . . . . . .
652 Reinsurance Total legal forms all nationalities . . . . . . .
Sole proprietorship . . . . . . .
Limited liability enterprises . . . . . . .
Partnership, etc. . . . . . . .
662 Activities auxiliary to insurance Total legal forms all nationalities . . . . . . .
Sole proprietorship . . . . . . .
Limited liability enterprises . . . . . . .
Partnership, etc. . . . . . . .
Q Health and social work activities Total legal forms all nationalities 26,668 1,462,291 1,461,971 3,643 3,606 3,939 3,901
Sole proprietorship 6,857 30,355 30,321 971 965 1,228 1,222
Limited liability enterprises 8,715 338,321 338,287 1,353 1,350 1,305 1,301
Partnership, etc. 11,096 1,093,615 1,093,363 1,319 1,291 1,406 1,377
86 Human health activities Total legal forms all nationalities 17,493 587,943 587,943 2,178 2,178 2,506 2,506
Sole proprietorship 5,453 21,823 21,823 714 714 977 977
Limited liability enterprises 5,703 139,592 139,592 734 734 733 733
Partnership, etc. 6,337 426,528 426,528 730 730 796 796
Source: CBS.
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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, and the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year survivors after employer 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 employers, employer births and deaths, as well as persons employed for surviving employer 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 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.

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