[Edit: Adding specifics link on survival rates] Shows the ~50% 5 year survival rate and goes out to 14 years: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_

[Edit: Adding specifics link on survival rates] Shows the ~50% 5 year survival rate and goes out to 14 years: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_2012.pdf https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_2012.pdf [Original comment]I don't have specific slice of the data to link right now so summarizing how we dug in to look at business life for US small businesses. We focus on US 2-25 employee small businesses and as we dug into numbers at https://www.census.gov/econ/susb/ https://www.census.gov/econ/susb/ and https://www.sba.gov/advocacy/firm-size-data https://www.sba.gov/advocacy/firm-size-data we found that each year ~500,000 businesses enter and exit the 2-25. Most of the entrances is from one of the 15-23 million sole proprietors adding their first employee and most of the exits are a business shutting down or returning to a sole proprietorship. In total for the category there are ~3.5M that employee ~40M people in total which would be an average life of 7 years.