With a total of 538,185 business start-ups, 2013 is the worst year since 2009The year in which the auto-entrepreneur scheme was introduced. In total creation: -2.1% versus 2012.
However, this result masks two opposite movements:
- 2013 is the worst year in the last 5 years for the creation of auto-entrepreneurs,
- the best year for creations excluding auto-entrepreneurs.
Of course, creations under the auto-entrepreneur scheme are suffering from the crisis, and from the questioning of its terms and conditions in 2013, which the Grandguillaume report is only belatedly reassuring. The fall was -10.6% between 2012 and 2013, and -24% compared with the best year in 2010. On the other hand, start-ups outside this scheme are doing well, with an increase of +8.6% between 2012 and 2013.
Of the total of 263,243 creations excluding auto-entrepreneurs, corporate forms still represent the majority (60%), but remain stable, while creations in the form of sole proprietorships increased significantly by +26% between 2012 and 2013. This is the first time in 5 years that sole proprietorship creation has increased.
In terms of total creation, although auto-entrepreneurs still account for more than one in two creations, this share, at 51% in 2013, is the lowest since the scheme was introduced.
In 2013 compared with 2012:
- The most significant falls were in the household services sector (-8.2%), real estate (-7.3%), and construction (-6.4%).
- Conversely, the sectors that are growing are transport and storage (+11.5%), financial and insurance activities (+8%), and education, health and social work (+6.1%).
So the results for 2013 are mixed. While the total number of new businesses is down, and has been for the past 3 years if we include last year's status quo, and the number of self-employed entrepreneurs is taking a serious beating, the upturn in the number of sole proprietorships, which some might think are more likely to be long-lasting and create jobs, is a hopeful sign. This is all the more true given that it is the very small businesses that are creating jobs. in net balanceAs she has just recalled the latest OECD scoreboard (no doubt the source of the French President's reminder of this statistical reality in his speech on 14 January). An OECD study which reminds us that net employment is created by small businesses ... but also by the youngest:
... like that, if young people need jobs, jobs also need young people ...
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Annexes
The history of the company since 2000:
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Summary to download: NCC_Business creation review 2013