Similar to statistics of human population, business demography describes the life cycle of the enterprises: their birth, survival and development until death. More specifically business demography supplies data on the number of active enterprises, number of newborn enterprises, proportion of surviving enterprises and data on changes in employment figures at specific moment in time.
The National Statistical Institute (NSI) presented the study of business demographic events among the enterprises in Bulgaria for 2009 and follows their dynamics for the 5-year study period.
The active enterprises with zero employees represent the largest proportion of the population of all active enterprises during the whole 2006-2010 period. In 2010 their number is 142 166 which is 43.9% of all active enterprises. There are 128 739 enterprises in the next “1-4 employees” group which is 39.7% of the total number for 2010.
In 2010 the proportion of enterprises established in 2005 and still active five years later is almost 5.8%.
The most viable are the enterprises from sector “Financial and insurance activities” where the proportion of enterprises successfully surviving the five-year period is almost 10.2%. At the opposite side are the enterprises from sector “Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply” with a little over 2% surviving enterprises.
Almost 11.4% of the total number of enterprises in the selected economic sectors are newborn in 2010. For the last five years the annual average percent of newborn enterprises was slightly above 17% of the number of active enterprises during this period.
In 2009 the number of dead enterprises is 25 772 or almost 8% of the total number of active enterprises during the year.
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