New businesses registered in Canada

131,783 companies were registered in Canada in 2022.

Measure: New businesses registered Unit: New limited liability companies Data: 2017 to 2022 Source: World Bank
Canada, 2022 131,783 New limited liability companies
Change from 2021 −1.7% 2021: 134,054 companies

New businesses registered in Canada over time

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New limited liability companies. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

New businesses registered (new limited liability companies), 2017 to 2022
Period Canada
2022 131,783 companies
2021 134,054 companies
2020 108,488 companies
2019 91,726 companies
2018 86,869 companies
2017 3,052 companies

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −1.7% from 134,054 companies in 2021.
  • Since 2017, when it was 3,052 companies, the figure has changed by +4,217.9%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
IC.BUS.NREG · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2017 to 2022 for Canada
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database