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Economy

Cessation Of All Business Entities By Type, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 11 May 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. 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

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

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())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Cessation Of All Business Entities By Type, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 12, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_acf160e57c4a954c6fc684244ac74dd6/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

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Economy

Cessation Of All Business Entities By Type, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 11 May 2026, 23:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY

Data Last Updated: 20/01/2026

Update Frequency: Annual

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M085671

‌

Economy

Cessation Of All Business Entities By Type, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 11 May 2026, 23:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY

Data Last Updated: 20/01/2026

Update Frequency: Annual

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M085671

Sample OpenAPI query

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())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Data explorer

CessationOfAllBusinessEntitiesByTypeAnnual.csv (7 rows, 2 KB)

Data Series Text	2025 Numeric	2024 Numeric	2023 Numeric	2022 Numeric	2021 Numeric	2020 Numeric	2019 Text	2018 Text	2017 Text	2016 Text	2015 Text	2014 Text	2013 Text	2012 Text	2011 Text	2010 Text	2009 Text	2008 Text	2007 Text	2006 Text	2005 Text	2004 Text	2003 Text	2002 Text	2001 Text	2000 Text	1999 Text	1998 Text	1997 Text	1996 Text	1995 Text	1994 Text	1993 Text	1992 Text	1991 Text	1990 Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)28.6%	(Null)28.6%	(Null)28.6%	(Null)28.6%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%	(Null)42.9%
Total	60445	55318	51587	49456	48715	42474	47320	44814	48204	60746	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
Companies	34323	35184	31030	29256	29629	23702	23421	24013	22399	23229	21475	19304	18134	18939	19257	15003	22155	10312	9110	8971	7102	5918	7235	6350	4559	4784	5245	4114	3065	2757	2452	2179	2243	3650	1809	1906
Sole-Proprietorships & Partnerships	24276	18486	18876	18508	16675	17308	22362	19197	24007	35807	29365	22138	22578	22413	22948	24183	23342	21110	21317	26847	56285	17360	15065	11377	22976	24161	22246	21336	19482	19878	20390	19588	18679	13379	14324	13521
Limited Liability Partnerships	1692	1516	1561	1604	2294	1382	1411	1446	1733	1611	1240	1150	1011	1014	957	779	733	522	332	133	0	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na
Limited Partnerships	103	84	82	71	92	58	88	143	44	74	54	41	34	33	30	7	0	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na
Public Accounting Firms	9	14	29	12	24	24	38	15	21	25	19	18	20	16	24	7	20	33	18	21	19	42	4	2	0	3	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Variable Capital Companies	42	34	9	5	1	0	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Data Series	DataSeries	Text	Number	-
2025	2025	Numeric	Number	-
2024	2024	Numeric	Number	-
2023	2023	Numeric	Number	-
2022	2022	Numeric	Number	-
2021	2021	Numeric	Number	-
2020	2020	Numeric	Number	-
2019	2019	Text	Number	-
2018	2018	Text	Number	-
2017	2017	Text	Number	-

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