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Economy

Formation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 11 Jul 2025, 21:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY

Data Last Updated: 12/02/2025

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.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M085641

Data explorer

FormationOfAllBusinessEntitiesByIndustryAnnual.csv (16 rows, 4.4 KB)

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Total7163970401643056543863480615736180462113649316490277380602015674955776537215322749884497334557442953422533933936610332063644634926299213214932785311823145330289271082575724101
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Construction34113431326130192402271627162850303232683606343933063389345932063197306326002290219522252426285634983903351240384267355031773161279431192417
Wholesale Trade1192911212932283371100110420101669786938896951286810472101921023499601015294599523956198341024398528719753276317831700976017892814289158718803373637012
Retail Trade632259965183827189435798521654185827652912037657160475658526754104653457746984440420639794255372138824184372635383503349035823683344532063349
Transportation & Storage272926922588286829242970301477391147286723381248622802267210921822293231419061902188417321629160216311697144516441712169617301648150714391345
Accommodation10398746463101103958391911201301151031021671097955845252346432385361434136291821
Food & Beverage Services379336163335393432852985334132982968303433672879290528782959301628352971250322882245204618731843143615421426146315231388124911991071929826
Information & Communications963194039056786966606834819554805251539771505028414538763550317028782854290025612399253324832250388426121481146713051030892845705643542
Finance & Insurance6988749983098349600264675866501545264749492353095331522448083513379545023284258821991592112411131745118383514151573153616551315851668811

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_83b7cf1a1d8ef3e55c363e0d06dbcea5"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Formation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 6, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_83b7cf1a1d8ef3e55c363e0d06dbcea5/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)