2022 was another record year for company registrations in the UK, according to an analysis by small business support platform Enterprise Nation.
According to data published this month by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), in 2022 784,762 businesses were registered at Companies House. That’s almost 30,000 more than in 2021, and 114,000 more recorded annually pre-pandemic. In 2019, 670,575 businesses were registered.
While many will point to the rise of so-called zombie companies and the high level of dissolutions, the relentless upwards trend in these figures is an indicator of the UK’s growing entrepreneurial aspiration, the company said.
