More than a million companies were created in France in 2022, with 1.072 million registrations, INSEE reported on Friday.
This increase was achieved despite a drop in job creations in December.
Among the companies created in 2022, 61% were created by self-entrepreneurs, said the National Institute of Statistics (Insee).
In 2021, 1.05 million companies had been created, according to the new INSEE calculation method, which had initially reported just under 996,000 creations.
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The number of micro-enterprises created by auto-entrepreneurs increased by 2.8% to more than 656,000 last year and the creation of companies increased even more strongly, with an increase of 4.8% to nearly 300,000 compared to 2021. On the other hand, the creation of traditional sole proprietorships fell by 7.4% to 122,000.
One sector contradicts the general trend towards an increase in the number of business creations, that of transport and warehousing with 34.5% fewer registrations.
These activities, which include home deliveries, had experienced very strong growth during the Covid-19 crisis, but many companies did not survive the lifting of health restrictions.
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In December, business creations fell by 3.4% over one month in data adjusted for seasonal variations and the number of working days, with in particular a decline of 10% in household services and in manufacturing industry ( -16.3%).
However, business creations were up sharply over one year, by 8.5%, in the fourth quarter of 2022, with an 11.2% increase in registrations of micro-enterprises (auto-entrepreneurs).
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