The previous record, which was reached in 2019, was 38,061 new companies created in the first nine months of the year.

In a statement, Informa D&B reports that two-thirds of sectors register growth in the creation of companies compared to the same period last year. Highlights include Transport, with 4,729 registrations (+1,596 registrations; +51 percent), Accommodation and catering (+394 registrations, +11 percent), Construction (+344 registrations, +17 percent) and General Services (+ 331 registrations, +16 percent).

Real estate activities are the sector with the greatest decline in company formation (-400 formations, -9.7 percent), a trend that has been observed in the majority of the last 12 months. Other sectors to record declines are Information and Communication Technologies (-146 registrations, -5.8 percent) and Industries, the main national export sector, whose number of registrations in these 9 months of 2023 was the lowest of all years.