Number of businesses less than 1 year old, U.S. 1994-2021

This timeline measures entrepreneurialism in the United States by showing the number of businesses that were less than one year old and still in their start-up phase, from March 1994 to March 2021. In March 2021, there were almost 840,000 businesses that were less than 1 year old, an increase on the March 2020 figure of 804,620.