20 percent more new companies were started in Jönköping County in the 2010 century, compared with the decade before. This shows new statistics from the Swedish Companies Registration Office that Visma compiled. In the last decade, 2010-2019, the number of registrations of new companies in Jönköping County increased to 16,765, compared with 2000-2009 when 13,992 new companies were started.

In the country as a whole, almost 649,000 new businesses were started during the same period. This is 18 percent more than the decade 2000-2009, when more than 548,000 companies were started.

In Sweden, there are today about one million registered companies. Of these, the vast majority are small companies with up to nine employees. A recent survey conducted by Sifo on behalf of Visma shows that every third Swede dreams of starting a business. Among young people between the ages of 18 and 29, as many as 43 percent are attracted to small business life.

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