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Australia's new business formations was 460k businesses per year as of January 2026. Number of new business entries registered in Australia each year. Business formation is a leading indicator of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism. Data is sourced from ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits (Cat. 8165.0): Entries - Total, All Industries, financial year to 30 June (state drilldown: Entries - Total by state). ABS rebased the counts at FY2018, so FY2004-17 come from earlier releases on the earlier basis. and updated annually.
Ranked by latest value (higher is better)
| Rank | State | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New South WalesNSW | 154,636businesses per year |
| 2 | VictoriaVIC | 128,270businesses per year |
| 3 | QueenslandQLD | 88,637businesses per year |
| 4 | Western AustraliaWA | 46,619businesses per year |
| 5 | South AustraliaSA | 26,412businesses per year |
| 6 | Australian Capital TerritoryACT | 6,605businesses per year |
| 7 | TasmaniaTAS | 5,881businesses per year |
| 8 | Northern TerritoryNT | 3,108businesses per year |
Number of new business entries registered in Australia each year.
Business formation is a leading indicator of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism.
Higher is better
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits (Cat. 8165.0): Entries - Total, All Industries, financial year to 30 June (state drilldown: Entries - Total by state). ABS rebased the counts at FY2018, so FY2004-17 come from earlier releases on the earlier basis.), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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