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Want to Learn More? Share this Story. For permission to reproduce the information in this publication for commercial purposes, please fill out the Application for Crown Copyright Clearance or contact the Web Services Centre contact information above. Key Small Business Statistics provides statistical data Footnote 1 on the business sector in Canada, focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs. The current edition contains data on the following questions:. In this publication, the definition of a " business " or an " enterprise " may vary slightly according to the statistical sources used.
Below is a list of those sources and links to the definitions used:. Footnote 2. Since self-employed and " indeterminate " businesses are not considered to have paid employees, they are generally not included in this publication. This publication defines an SME as a business establishment with 1 to paid employees. As of December , the Canadian economy totaled 1. Of these, 1. Between and , the average number of SMEs created annually was 96, and the average number of businesses that disappeared annually was 90, On average, As of , small businesses employed 8.
By comparison, medium-sized businesses employed 2. Between and , small businesses were responsible for Medium-sized businesses contributed In , small businesses contributed High-growth firms HGFs are present in every economic sector and are not just concentrated in knowledge-based industries.
Based upon employment growth from to , the highest concentration of HGFs in Canada is found in the following sectors:. In , Ontario had In , SMEs contributed As of December , there were 1. More than half of Canada's small employer businesses are concentrated in Ontario and Quebec , and ,, respectively. Western Canada has a large number of small businesses, led by British Columbia, which had , small businesses as of December In the Atlantic region, Nova Scotia has the most small businesses at 29, The province with the most businesses per thousand individuals aged 18 and over is Prince Edward Island In contrast, Quebec has the smallest number of businesses per thousand individuals aged 18 and over Of the 1,, employer businesses in Canada, Micro-enterprises 1—4 employees make up By adding those businesses with 5—9 employees, this number increases to In other words, almost three out of four Canadian businesses have 1—9 employees.
It should be noted that the distribution of businesses according to the number of employees varies slightly between the goods-producing and services-producing sectors. Note: By definition, the goods-producing sector consists of agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting; mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; utilities; construction and manufacturing. The services-producing sector consists of wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation and warehousing; information and cultural industries; finance and insurance; real estate and rental and leasing; professional, scientific and technical services; management of companies and enterprises; administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; educational services; health care and social assistance; arts, entertainment and recreation; accommodation and food services; other services except public administration and public administration.
The following four industries — construction; retail trade; professional, scientific and technical services; and other services except public administration — account for , businesses on their own, which represents The health care and social assistance industry also accounts for a significant number of businesses: , or 9.
More than half More than 99 percent of businesses in the following four industries are small businesses: agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting; real estate and rental and leasing; professional, scientific and technical services; and other services except public administration. However, only An increase or decrease in the number of businesses is the net result of the appearance or disappearance of businesses over a given period.
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