Small Business Survival Rates
Small Business Openings & Closings:
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There were 671,800 new businesses, and 544,800*business closures.
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Two-thirds of new employer firms survive at least two years, and about 44% survive at least four.
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Findings do not differ greatly across industry sectors.
Ух ты ж, а в последние годы статистика немного улучшилась:
http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/sbfaq.pdf — там табличка есть за 2001-2005
И ещё оттуда:
Small firms:
• Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
• Employ half of all private sector employees.
• Pay more than 45 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
• Have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually
over the last decade.
• Create more than 50 percent of nonfarm private gross
domestic product (GDP).
• Supplied more than 23 percent of the total value of federal
prime contracts in FY 2005.
• Produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than
large patenting firms. These patents are twice as likely as
large firm patents to be among the one percent most cited.
• Are employers of 41 percent of high tech workers (such as
scientists, engineers, and computer workers).
• Are 53 percent home-based and 3 percent franchises.
• Made up 97 percent of all identified exporters and produced
28.6 percent of the known export value in FY 2004.