New Business Density

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: new-business-density-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of New Business Density: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	116	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	116	0
New limited liability companies per 1,000 people aged 15–64new_business_densityHeadline	The headline figure: New limited liability companies registered per 1,000 people aged 15–64.	Number · up to 17 decimals	0.020Somalia26.760Estoniamiddle 2.187	116	0
New limited liability companies registerednew_llcsMeasure	The number of new limited liability companies registered in the year, as the business registry reported it to the World Bank.	Number · whole numbers	42Tonga979,211Brazilmiddle 15,344	116	0
Publisher's note on coveragecoverage_noteLabel	The World Bank’s own footnote where its figure covers only part of the country; empty where it covers the whole country.	Text	—	2	114

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

The newest 12 of 19 years.

Not in this dataset · 67 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBahrainBarbadosBelizeBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCameroonCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIsle of ManLebanonLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMauritiusMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNicaraguaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPanamaPhilippinesSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSomalilandSudanSyriaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican CityVenezuelaYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   New Business Density 2024 (Entrepreneurship Database, 2025 release)

   ED2025 - New LLCs.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   19 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as new-business-density-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/new-business-density

From the World Bank’s Entrepreneurship Database, read from its own workbook rather than the indicator API, which lacks the workbook’s footnotes. Only limited liability companies are counted; sole proprietors and informal businesses are not.

• Charted

  New Business Density by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Economy & Innovation

• Near neighbours

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