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Economy

Formation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 11 Mar 2026, 22:00 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.

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

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_83b7cf1a1d8ef3e55c363e0d06dbcea5"
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). Formation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 4, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_83b7cf1a1d8ef3e55c363e0d06dbcea5/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

Formation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 11 Mar 2026, 22:00 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/M085641

‌

Economy

Formation Of All Business Entities By Industry, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2025

Last updated: 11 Mar 2026, 22:00 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/M085641

Sample OpenAPI query

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())

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

FormationOfAllBusinessEntitiesByIndustryAnnual.csv (16 rows, 4.5 KB)

Data Series Text	2025 Numeric	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	78146	71687	70399	64305	65438	63480	61573	61804	62113	64931	64902	77380	60201	56749	55776	53721	53227	49884	49733	45574	42953	42253	39339	36610	33206	36446	34926	29921	32149	32785	31182	31453	30289	27108	25757	24101
Manufacturing	2583	2415	2555	2437	2663	2471	2102	1919	2011	2078	2246	2663	2388	2213	2382	2430	2402	2704	2522	2281	1976	1718	1568	1678	2030	2385	2105	1958	2102	2309	2381	2365	2440	2284	2338	2350
Construction	3718	3487	3562	3261	3019	2402	2716	2716	2850	3032	3268	3606	3439	3306	3389	3459	3206	3197	3063	2600	2290	2195	2225	2426	2856	3498	3903	3512	4038	4267	3550	3177	3161	2794	3119	2417
Wholesale Trade	12048	11876	11145	9322	8337	11001	10420	10166	9786	9388	9695	12868	10472	10192	10234	9960	10152	9459	9523	9561	9834	10243	9852	8719	7532	7631	7831	7009	7601	7892	8142	8915	8718	8033	7363	7012
Retail Trade	7701	6417	6145	5183	8271	8943	5798	5216	5418	5827	6529	12037	6571	6047	5658	5267	5410	4653	4577	4698	4440	4206	3979	4255	3721	3882	4184	3726	3538	3503	3490	3582	3683	3445	3206	3349
Transportation & Storage	3886	2798	2746	2588	2868	2924	2970	3014	7739	11472	8672	3381	2486	2280	2267	2109	2182	2293	2314	1906	1902	1884	1732	1629	1602	1631	1697	1445	1644	1712	1696	1730	1648	1507	1439	1345
Accommodation	111	104	104	74	64	63	101	103	95	83	91	91	120	130	115	103	102	167	109	79	55	84	52	52	34	64	32	38	53	61	43	41	36	29	18	21
Food & Beverage Services	4103	3795	3669	3335	3934	3285	2985	3341	3298	2968	3034	3367	2879	2905	2878	2959	3016	2835	2971	2503	2288	2245	2046	1873	1843	1436	1542	1426	1463	1523	1388	1249	1199	1071	929	826
Information & Communications	9991	9696	9405	9056	7869	6660	6834	8195	5480	5251	5397	7150	5028	4145	3876	3550	3170	2878	2854	2900	2561	2399	2533	2483	2250	3884	2612	1481	1467	1305	1030	892	845	705	643	542
Finance & Insurance	7337	6744	7210	8309	8349	6002	6467	5866	5015	4526	4749	4923	5309	5331	5224	4808	3513	3795	4502	3284	2588	2199	1592	1124	1113	1745	1183	835	1415	1573	1536	1655	1315	851	668	811

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2019	2019	Numeric	Number	-
2018	2018	Numeric	Number	-
2017	2017	Numeric	Number	-

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