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Economy

Formation Of All Business Entities By Type, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 11 Mar 2026, 23:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY

Data Last Updated: 20/01/2026

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: The decrease in the business formation and cessation counts in December 2024 was due to a temporary suspension of (a) all eServices on Bizfile portal including those relating to business registration and cessation to facilitate IT system migration activities carried out in first week of December; and (b) ACRA's periodic exercise to remove from the public register business entities that failed to renew their registrations and companies that were dormant.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M085661

Data explorer

FormationOfAllBusinessEntitiesByTypeAnnual.csv (7 rows, 2 KB)

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Total781467168770399643056543863480615736180462113649316490277380602015674955776537215322749884497334557442953422533933936610332063644634926299213214932785311823145330289271082575724101
Companies5807752210508264641945178423614392043240373943522534241384843497631741299872764224386237132403719738182571715113543112938511110368506662489349524947598388796722666536492
Sole-Proprietorships & Partnerships181991774517802161311796318931158281636622148271182847835676228352272723409238372677624535238132405523435249742578225302246762538326399232842320123249217022159721478198711910017600
Limited Liability Partnerships145113531354127718352057171020582373243121003104231222112321215620281614186617571240nanananananananananananananana
Limited Partnerships20619316516015811710413118914266985653386425nanananananananananananananananananana
Public Accounting Firms715124161411991517182217212212221724211281415192721131412518151149
Variable Capital Companies2061712403142880nananananananananananananananananananananananananananananana

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_20b6bc557c892bf54d0e4773bfebf439"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Formation Of All Business Entities By Type, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 5, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_20b6bc557c892bf54d0e4773bfebf439/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)