What the business (a) birth, (b) death and (c) survival rate has been in each year since 2007.

Business births, deaths and survival rates – based on VAT/PAYE registrations and deregistrations
- are produced by the Office for National Statistics within their Business Demography publications.
Table 1 below provides the business birth and death rates as a share of the active business population, for Scotland, for 2006 to 2015. Table 2 below provides the business birth and death rates per 10,000 adults, for Scotland, for 2006 to 2015. Table 3 below provides the available one-year to five-year survival rates for businesses born in 2006 onwards.
Note that the 2007 business birth figures were particularly affected by a change in the tax rules in April 2007 surrounding Managed Service Companies. In response to this change already established small businesses newly registered – this inflated the business birth figures for 2007.
Table 1
- Business birth and death rates as a share of the active business population, Scotland, 2006 to 2015

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Birth
10.9%
12.6%
10.9%
9.8%
10.0%
10.9%
11.0%
13.3%
12.7%
12.6%
Death
9.1%
8.3%
8.7%
10.0%
9.8%
9.0%
10.5%
9.2%
9.3%
9.4%
Table 2
- Business birth and death rates per 10,000 adults, Scotland, 2006 to 2015

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Birth
36
43
38
34
36
39
40
49
48
49
Death
30
28
30
35
35
32
38
34
35
37
Table 3
- Business survival rates per 10,000 adults, Scotland

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
One Year Survival
96.5%
96.1%
93.4%
90.8%
85.5%
93.9%
91.8%
94.0%
92.4%
Two Year Survival
80.3%
81.6%
77.1%
74.4%
72.5%
77.6%
75.9%
76.6%
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Three Year Survival
65.7%
65.5%
61.2%
60.1%
57.1%
62.8%
62.0%
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Four Year Survival
54.4%
54.7%
51.8%
48.8%
48.3%
53.2%
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-
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Five Year Survival
46.3%
47.4%
43.6%
42.1%
41.4%
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Source: Businesses Demography, Office for National Statistics.