New businesses registered (number)

Dataset IC.BUS.NREG published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database
Code: IC.BUS.NREG
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: Entrepreneurship Database, World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/entrepreneurship

Definition published with the series

New businesses registered are the number of new limited liability corporations (or its equivalent) registered in the calendar year.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
New businesses registered	IC.BUS.NREG	new limited liability companies