Statistics Norway

Entrepreneurs in business enterprise sector

2 Newly established enterprises1 in 2004, by survival and the entrepreneurs gender
  Personal owned enterprises2 Private and public limited companies
  New established enterprises total Percentage of surviving enterprises New established enterprises total Percentage of surviving enterprises
  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Gender                        
Total 30 097 46.2 38.7 32.1 28.2 23.7 7 906 80.1 74.5 67.2 62.1 56.3
Entrepreneurs of both genders  591 53.1 51.3 42.3 38.7 33.0 1 260 83.3 76.6 69.9 62.9 57.9
Only female entrepreneursWomen 9 530 41.4 33.8 27.0 23.4 19.4  743 84.3 75.8 68.2 60.4 53.8
Only male entrepreneurs 19 976 48.4 40.6 34.2 30.1 25.5 5 903 78.9 73.9 66.5 62.2 56.2
1  Enterprises that only have juridical persons (enterprises) as actors, or no registered information about actors are not included in the statistics.
2  Personal owned enterprises are sole proprietorships, general partnerships and general partnerships with shared liability.

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