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Business Statistics: Poland
The number of new businesses registered in Poland in 2016 was 43,523. However, information on the total number of businesses in the country of Poland, what proportion of all businesses are Sole Traders, what proportion of all businesses have less than 10 employees, what proportion of all businesses have less than 250 employees, and what proportion of all businesses have less than 50m EUR in annual turnover in revenue was not available in the public domain.
HELPFUL FINDINGS
- The number of new businesses registered in Poland in 2016 was 43,523.
- "An enterprise may be a corporation, a quasi- corporation, a non-profit institution, or an unincorporated enterprise."
- In 2018, Poland had 823 companies listed on the stock exchange as can be extracted graphically.
- According to European Fact Sheet, the 2018 SBA listed 1,695,991 as the total number of businesses in Poland as of 2017.
- The total number for the non-financial business economy of microbusinesses or sole trader/proprietor businesses in Poland as of 2017 was 1,623,093 and this represented 93.1% of the total businesses in Poland.
- The total number of persons employed in Poland by these micro-businesses for the non-financial business economy is 3,445,505 people.
- Microbusiness for the non-financial business economy has 1,623,093 enterprises in Poland with 3,445,505 employees.
- Small Businesses for the non-financial business economy has 54,781 enterprises in Poland with 1,177,609 employees.
- Medium-sized businesses for the non-financial business economy has 14,821 enterprises in Poland with 1,585,267 employees.
- Large businesses for the non-financial business economy has 3,296 enterprises in Poland with 2,907,128 employees.
- "In 2016, the non-financial business economy in Poland in had 1,620,219 with firms that had 0 to 9 employees which are likely to be sole proprietorship firms."
- "In 2016, there were 3,315 enterprises with 250 employees or more in Poland."
RESEARCH STRATEGY
We began this research by visiting world/global organizations that publish statistics about various countries with Poland inclusive in a bid to find the total number of businesses in the country of Poland, what proportion of all businesses are Sole Traders, what proportion of all businesses have less than 10 employees, what proportion of all businesses have less than 250 employees, and what proportion of all businesses have less than 50m EUR in annual turnover in revenue. The global economy only gave us data as regards to companies listed on its stock exchange. Therefore, this data did not provide us with relevant information.
We then searched archives, records, and reports published by the World Bank for any insight into finding the total number of businesses in of Poland along with the other requested information. However, we could only find metrics related to doing business in Poland. We also searched records in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which provided us with the total number of enterprise employees. However, the OECD database did not offer any specifications on the class of employees such as non-economic data or agricultural data.
Since we could not find data from world organizations we visited business statistical sites such as Statista to find data for the requested information. We found limited data for the non-financial business economy in Poland, but could not use this data to calculate the total number of businesses in the country or any other data about these businesses. We also attempted to find regional statistics. However, of the regional statistics that we found, the data could only be used for a particular sector and not the whole of Poland's business industry. For this reason, it would not be possible to triangulate the data because the estimate would not be based on fully-contextualized data.