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Business demography, UK: 2020
What's in the bulletin?
- Between 2019 and 2020 the number of UK business births decreased from 390,000 to 358,000, a birth rate of 11.9% in 2020 compared with 13.0% in 2019.
- The number of UK business deaths decreased from 324,000 to 316,000 between 2019 and 2020, a death rate of 10.5% compared with 10.8% in 2019.
- London had both the highest business birth rate at 14.0%, and death rate at 12.1%.
Business investment in the UK: July to September 2022 provisional results
What's in the bulletin?
- Business investment fell by 0.5% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2022.
- The level of business investment in Quarter 3 2022 is 8.4% below where it was in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2019, the quarter before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic; gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) levels are 0.8% above that same quarter.
- Whole economy investment, which includes business and public sector investment, increased by 2.5% in Quarter 3 2022 and was 5.8% higher than in the same quarter a year ago.
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Business demography, UK
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Business investment in the UK: January to March 2023 provisional results
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Foreign-owned businesses in the UK non-financial business economy
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