Are more businesses opening or closing?
Openings and closures since 2001
Business locations, years to February.
By industry
| Industry | Opened per 100 | Closed per 100 | Net |
|---|
Per 100 business locations in the industry, year to February 2026.
By place
Net change per 100 business locations, by region
Fastest-growing and fastest-shrinking districts
About these numbers
Business locations (Stats NZ's "geographic units") are each place a business operates from, in the year to February. Most have no employees: many are sole traders, rental-property owners and trusts, which is why finance and property have so many openings and closures.
A birth is a location that becomes active and a death one that stops; the employee counts are the jobs in those locations at the time. Counts are of economically significant businesses on Stats NZ's Business Register.
For jobs every month, see where are the jobs?; for how firms feel, see business confidence.
Source: Stats NZ New Zealand business demography statistics (Business, 28 February 2026).