New Zealand Business Demography Statistics: At February 2010

Provisional figures at February 2010 showed:

• 470,350 enterprises, down 1.7 percent compared with February 2009
• 43,700 enterprise births over the year, down 20.4 percent from the previous year
• 55,040 enterprises ceased over the year, up 6.0 percent from the previous year
• a total of 1.890 million paid employees (a business size measure statistic, not an official employment statistic), down 1.9 percent from 2009
• one-fifth of all enterprises were in the rental, hiring, and real estate services industry
• the manufacturing industry was the largest employer (227,300 employees)
• the new Auckland Council region that comes into existence on 1 November 2010 had an estimated 31 percent of the business locations in New Zealand.