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U.S. Business Establishment Births and Deaths
Employer establishments opening and closing each year (March to March)
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics. Employer establishments (single locations with paid employees); each year runs March to March. A chain opening a store is a birth. Not comparable with Canada's monthly openings and closures, which count businesses and include temporary closures.
Every U.S. workplace with employees that opened or closed in each year since 1978. Deaths overtook births in the Great Recession; the gap between the lines is the change in the number of establishments.
What this chart reads
- U.S. Establishment Births (Annual)as “Births”latest 2023-03-12
- U.S. Establishment Deaths (Annual)as “Deaths”latest 2023-03-12
Sources
U.S. Establishment Births (Annual). Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), national time series (www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds). Public domain.
U.S. Establishment Deaths (Annual). Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), national time series (www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds). Public domain.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.