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As of 2021, business enterprises founded in 2020 in the United Kingdom had a one-year survial rate of 92.9 percent, compared with 94.6 percent in the previous year. Of businesses founded in 2016, just 38.5 percent were still operating in 2021.

Survival rate of new enterprises in the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2021, by years survived

Year of enterprise birth	1 year	2 years	3 years	4 years	5 years
2021	93.4%	-	-	-	-
2020	92.9%	71.2%	-	-	-
2019	94.6%	74.6%	55.9%	-	-
2018	94.8%	74.1%	57.6%	47.3%	-
2017	93.7%	72.9%	56.1%	46%	39.6%
2016*	95.2%	71.1%	54.1%	44.9%	38.4%
2015	89.7%	71.3%	55.3%	46%	39.6%
2014	92.2%	75.7%	61.2%	49.3%	42.5%
2013	93.5%	75%	60.8%	51.2%	42.4%
2012	91.2%	73.8%	59.4%	50.4%	43.2%
2011	93.1%	75.6%	60.5%	51%	44.1%
2010	86.7%	72.5%	57.1%	48.1%	41.4%
2009	90.8%	73.8%	59.6%	48.9%	41.7%
2008	92%	74%	58%	48.9%	41.3%
2007	95.4%	81.1%	63%	52%	44.6%

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Release date

November 2023

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2007 to 2021

Supplementary notes

*Change in methodology from 2016 onwards. Further information availabile from the 'Measuring the Data' section of the ONS article.

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