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Company start-up and failure statistics

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The Statistics regarding company start-ups and closures seeks to quantify the number of companies and establishments that are created and closed over time, according to the different economic sectors, territorial spheres and other characteristics of those units, and the legal entity or its size. This demographics information is directly obtained from the Directory of Economic Activities and also provides the start-up and closure rates over time.

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As at 1 January 2025, the number of people employed in the Basque Country had increased by 1.5% (12/10/2025)

Reference period > 01/01/2025

Last update > 12/10/2025

Increasing the number of companies (%) (01/01/2025)

-0.8

Increase of employed persons (01/01/2025)

1.5

Press releases
As at 1 January 2025, the number of people employed in the Basque Country had increased by 1.5% (12/10/2025)	12/10/2025
The number of people employed in the Basque Country has increased by 3.8% over the last five years (11/28/2024)	11/28/2024
On 1 January 2023, the number of people employed in the Basque Country increased by 1.8%, although there was a decrease in the number of companies (11/29/2023)	11/29/2023
The number of people working in cooperatives reached 54,000, 5.9% of employment in the Basque Country (06/30/2023)	06/30/2023
The number of companies in the Basque Country fell by 0.9% and employment rose by 0.2% in 2022 (12/14/2022)	12/14/2022
At the beginning of 2021, there were 1,400 fewer companies in the Basque Country than the previous year (12/22/2021)	12/22/2021
The number of companies and their employed personnel in the Basque Country increased in 2019 (12/18/2019)	12/18/2019
The number of people employed increased for the third consecutive year in Basque companies in 2018, but their numbers were down (12/26/2018)	12/26/2018
159,000 companies were operating in the Basque Country at the start of 2015 (12/23/2015)	12/23/2015
The number of establishments in the Basque Country fell by 1.3% in 2013 (12/26/2014)	12/26/2014
The total number of Basque establishments dropped for the fifth consecutive year (01/30/2014)	01/30/2014
The total number of Basque establishments drops for the third consecutive year (03/20/2012)	03/20/2012
Three-quarters of Basque establishments have less than 3 employees (03/30/2011)	03/30/2011
Three quarters of Basque establishments had less than 3 employees and accounted for 19.4% of jobs (03/30/2010)	03/30/2010
Personnel employed in companies located in the Basque Country increased by 2.5% in 2008 (03/31/2009)	03/31/2009
Personnel employed in companies located in the A.C. of the Basque Country increased by 4.5% in 2007 (04/24/2008)	04/24/2008
Personnel employed in companies located in the A.C. of the Basque Country increased by 3.1% in 2006 (04/30/2007)	04/30/2007
Personnel employed in companies located in the A.C. of the Basque Country increased by 4.1% in 2005 (06/28/2006)	06/28/2006
Personnel employed in companies located in the A.C. of the Basque Country increased by 1.7% in 2004 (04/18/2005)	04/18/2005
Companies located in the A.C. of the Basque Country employed 806,220 people in 2003, 2.2% more than the previous year (03/05/2004)	03/05/2004
Number of companies grew 2.2% and employment rose 3.8% in the A.C. of the Basque Country in 2002 (04/07/2003)	04/07/2003