Glossary:Business demography

From Statistics Explained

Business demography covers:

• events in the life cycle of an enterprise such as births and other creations of enterprises, deaths and other cessations of units, and their ratio to the business population;
• the follow-up of enterprises over time, thus offering information on their survival or discontinuity;
• development over time of certain characteristics like size, thus offering information on the growth of enterprises, or a cohort of enterprises, by type of activity.

Related indicators

• Enterprise
• Enterprise birth
• Enterprise death
• Enterprise survival

Statistical data

• Business demography statistics