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Economy

Cessation Of All Business Entities By Type, Annual

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. 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/M085671

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated 4 days ago (11 Sep 2026)

Updated annually

Data explorer

CessationOfAllBusinessEntitiesByTypeAnnual.csv (7 rows, 2 KB)

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Total604455531851587494564871542474473204481448204607465215342651417774241543216399794625031977307773597263406233202230417729275352894827495254512254722635228432176820922170291613315427
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Sole-Proprietorships & Partnerships242761848618876185081667517308223621919724007358072936522138225782241322948241832334221110213172684756285173601506511377229762416122246213361948219878203901958818679133791432413521
Limited Liability Partnerships169215161561160422941382141114461733161112401150101110149577797335223321330nanananananananananananananana
Limited Partnerships1038482719258881434474544134333070nanananananananananananananananananana
Public Accounting Firms91429122424381521251918201624720331821194242034100110000
Variable Capital Companies42349510nananananananananananananananananananananananananananananana
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_acf160e57c4a954c6fc684244ac74dd6"
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). Cessation Of All Business Entities By Type, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_acf160e57c4a954c6fc684244ac74dd6/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.

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)