That was an interesting thought. I had to look at the numbers a bit. In Sweden in 2012 69,216 companies where created [1]. In all of 2012 7,471 companies were d

That was an interesting thought. I had to look at the numbers a bit. In Sweden in 2012 69,216 companies where created [1]. In all of 2012 7,471 companies were declared bankrupt [2], about 10%. If 85% fail, then another 75% should have shut down voluntarily. That is out of 1.1 million companies of which 888,000 had some turnover last year [3], Can't find the statistics for the year on year growth though right now. Edit: found the stats. Seems the number of companies have only grown by 10% in total or so in six years [4]. So maybe you are right then. (all references in Swedish, sorry) [1] http://www.tillvaxtanalys.se/sv/publikationer/statistikserien/statistikserien/2013-03-19-konkurser-och-offentliga-ackord-2012.html http://www.tillvaxtanalys.se/sv/publikationer/statistikserie... [2] http://www.tillvaxtanalys.se/sv/publikationer/statistikserien/statistikserien/2014-02-11-nyforetagandet-i-sverige-2012.html http://www.tillvaxtanalys.se/sv/publikationer/statistikserie... [3] http://scb.se/sv_/Vara-tjanster/Foretag--och-myndighetsregister/Foretagsregistret/Aktuell-statistik-ur-Foretagsregistret/ http://scb.se/sv_/Vara-tjanster/Foretag--och-myndighetsregis... [4] http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd/START__NV__NV0101/FDBR07/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=44afc400-b603-466a-b0c0-a06ecbcb8e3c http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd/START__NV_...