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Economy

Cessation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 11 Apr 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: 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

Data explorer

CessationOfAllBusinessEntitiesByIndustryAnnual.csv (16 rows, 4.4 KB)

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Retail Trade679461025766579352914496511044895141863179205225491848044625445848753866386143938046285326922116352440233710357531733246321932153322256226972800
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Food & Beverage Services307430482754274624572034235821322115277225122300236024722640223523391977174819353352122710198001267131912871255110611021096939927748763703
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response = requests.get(url)
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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Cessation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 16, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_29a0c196717b76f2329e193bc60ea7c2/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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