Following the health crisis, the number of business creations reached an absolute record.

There have been a million business creations in France over the last twelve months.

This is a 30% jump in one year, with even more spectacular increases of 40% in Ile de France and Hauts-de-France.

Nicolas Barré takes stock of a current economic issue.

Despite the crisis, or perhaps because of the crisis, entrepreneurship has never been so successful in France.

The number of new businesses has reached an all-time high.

It is a figure never seen in fact that has just unveiled INSEE.

There have been a million new business creations in France over the past twelve months, a record.

This is a 30% jump in one year, with even more spectacular increases of 40% in Ile de France and in the Hauts de France!

So of course you have to look at the detail.

Two-thirds of these creations, but this is not new, are autoentrepreneurs, therefore people who try to create their own job, sometimes because they have lost a more regular salaried job.

The typical case is the delivery people.

Currently in France, one in six business registrations is in the delivery sector.

It is typically a person who sets up on his own to work with platforms such as Deliveroo or Uber.

It is true that with the closure of restaurants, the demand for delivery has exploded and jobs with it.

However, the phenomenon is not limited to this.

For the past four years, the business creation curve has been rising sharply in France and this does not only affect self-employed entrepreneurs.

The movement also benefits so-called intermediate-sized companies, that is to say more than 250 people and 50 million turnover: there are nearly 6,000 in France, 1,000 more than there are. ten years.

The whole stake, beyond the creation of companies, is to make them grow.

First of all, they survive: a business created today has a 60% chance of still being there in five years. There are helpers for that, to support them. Then it is effectively to make them grow: the strength of the German economic fabric or - it should be said less - Italian, it is the high number of these mid-size companies, intermediate, agile, resilient, exporting. We have proportionately less than our two neighbors. But things are moving and what is encouraging is the number: in this million new companies for a year, there are some which in five or ten years will have acquired a respectable size and created many jobs. This sends a message of optimism.