Cessation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual

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Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 12 Jun 2025, 19:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY

Data Last Updated: 19/02/2025

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: Business entities refer to companies, sole-proprietorships & partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited partnerships, public accounting firms and variable capital companies. 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. The statistics on business entities cessation till 2017 have been adjusted to provide a more accurate reflection of the underlying cessation trends. In 2016 and 2017, ACRA conducted periodic reviews and removed from its public register, sole proprietorships and partnerships that failed to renew their registrations, and companies that were dormant. These periodic removal of business entities took place at ad hoc intervals and impacted published statistics on business entities cessation. The number of business entities cessation have therefore been adjusted to reflect the removal of such business entities at the date when they would have normally been removed. Going forward, such review and removal exercises will be conducted on a regular basis to provide a more accurate reflection of cessation trends.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M085651

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CessationOfAllBusinessEntitiesByIndustryAnnual.csv (16 rows, 4.3 KB)

Data Series Text	2024 Numeric	2023 Numeric	2022 Numeric	2021 Numeric	2020 Numeric	2019 Numeric	2018 Numeric	2017 Numeric	2016 Numeric	2015 Numeric	2014 Numeric	2013 Numeric	2012 Numeric	2011 Numeric	2010 Numeric	2009 Numeric	2008 Numeric	2007 Numeric	2006 Numeric	2005 Numeric	2004 Numeric	2003 Numeric	2002 Numeric	2001 Numeric	2000 Numeric	1999 Numeric	1998 Numeric	1997 Numeric	1996 Numeric	1995 Numeric	1994 Numeric	1993 Numeric	1992 Numeric	1991 Numeric	1990 Numeric
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Total	55491	51630	49469	48715	42474	47320	44814	48204	60747	52153	42651	41777	42415	43216	39979	46250	31977	30777	35972	63406	23320	22304	17729	27535	28948	27495	25451	22547	22635	22843	21768	20922	17029	16133	15427
Manufacturing	2321	2268	2118	1970	1631	1764	1706	1751	2326	2098	1806	1872	1986	2096	2107	2762	1709	1607	1922	3581	1462	1626	1417	2085	2184	2224	2282	2089	2276	2245	2242	2190	1882	1783	1625
Construction	2899	2389	2311	2178	1921	2331	2192	2278	2649	2592	2430	2459	2466	2588	2382	3348	1920	1941	2568	5608	2044	2282	1656	3360	3535	3404	3134	2795	2531	2789	2416	2302	1749	1727	1626
Wholesale Trade	9244	9099	8912	8835	7294	8204	7811	8007	10773	9862	8468	8561	8942	9479	8652	11457	7320	7279	8557	14616	5655	5499	4382	6510	7115	6928	6596	5904	6199	6317	6326	5734	4912	4295	4249
Retail Trade	6147	5769	5796	5291	4496	5110	4489	5141	8631	7920	5225	4918	4804	4625	4458	4875	3866	3861	4393	8046	2853	2692	2116	3524	4023	3710	3575	3173	3246	3219	3215	3322	2562	2697	2800
Transportation & Storage	2815	2880	3031	3110	3383	4491	5949	7087	5523	2348	1786	1848	1770	1850	1758	2172	1403	1365	1589	2911	1098	1049	880	1361	1488	1483	1324	1150	1147	1242	1119	1063	873	840	715
Accommodation	67	99	80	90	78	77	67	66	83	48	78	83	60	90	73	82	49	44	43	74	26	21	25	27	31	34	32	35	31	17	18	20	18	12	15
Food & Beverage Services	3047	2756	2747	2457	2034	2358	2132	2115	2772	2512	2300	2360	2472	2640	2235	2339	1977	1748	1935	3352	1227	1019	800	1267	1319	1287	1255	1106	1102	1096	939	927	748	763	703
Information & Communications	6856	6044	5222	5377	4713	4174	3466	3569	4692	3903	3035	2660	2752	2697	2407	2588	1951	1795	1936	3655	1275	1212	1002	1506	1296	890	795	602	562	472	429	361	278	241	201
Finance & Insurance	4485	3850	3384	3603	2928	3247	3125	3040	3317	3037	2835	2691	2679	2509	2216	2448	1414	1295	1229	1288	904	1072	934	685	772	784	535	432	424	396	386	411	457	307	279

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Data Series	DataSeries	Text	Number	-
2024	2024	Numeric	Number	-
2023	2023	Numeric	Number	-
2022	2022	Numeric	Number	-
2021	2021	Numeric	Number	-
2020	2020	Numeric	Number	-
2019	2019	Numeric	Number	-
2018	2018	Numeric	Number	-
2017	2017	Numeric	Number	-
2016	2016	Numeric	Number	-

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