Entrepreneurship & business dynamism
Part I — the engine
What it shows
Whether the business population is renewing itself — firm births and deaths, and the share of firms that actually employ people. The Netherlands' firm count is inflated by Europe's highest solo-self-employment rate, which is why employer enterprises are tracked separately.
What it cannot prove
The quality of dynamism. A registration is not a livelihood; firm births include false starts and fiscal constructions (a KVK registration is not an enterprise birth in the statistical sense — definitions differ). High churn can signal vitality or precarity.
C1Net enterprise growth
23.1k/yr
→1y -42.9k · 5y -52.3k · 10y -44.7k
ACBSsince 2007 · as of 2025
C3Employer enterprises
322k
·1y -3,306 · 5y — · 10y —
AEurostatsince 2021 · as of 2023
More indicators for this domain are planned — see the methodology & roadmap. Missing here means not credible yet, not forgotten.