The government of Juanma Moreno he proposed to make Andalusia an oasis for business investment and the data proves it right: the region closed the year 2022 with 635,349 companies13,492 more than those registered in 2021, overtaking the Community of Madrid for the first time, according to a work prepared by the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia (IECA) based on the latest Directory of Companies with Economic Activity in Andalusia.
Andalusia is situated as the second community in Spain with the most active companiesaccording to the latest data updated by the Central Business Directory (DIRCE) of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), and leaves behind others the Community of Madrid and the Valencian Community.
Data from the INE, which does not count companies in the agricultural sector, show that Andalusia has 520,870 companies with economic activity, 16.24% of the total Spain (3.207.580). Catalonia It heads that business classification with 591,734 entities. After Andalusia appear the Madrid's communitywith 503,018 companies, and the Valencian Community, con 352.990.
The Andalusian Government has explained that the INE Central Business Directory is updated once a year and, until the previous edition, Andalusia was in third position behind Madrid, so the change in positions occurred in 2022.
The 635,349 companies with which the region has closed 2022 represents a increase of 2.17% on the number of companies with economic activity in Andalusia a year earlier, while the number of workers in these companies has increased by 130,584 in one year, reaching 2,877,286 workers in 2022, 4.75% more than in 2021.
The figures refer to companies and workers in all sectors, including those in the agricultural sector and those linked to public administration (education, health, social services and defense), which until 2021 were left out of the statistics.
If these are left aside for a homogeneous comparison, Andalusian companies in 2022 were 534,199, which is 13,165 more companies than a year before (+2.53%) and 38,704 more companies than in 2018 (+7.81%). .
Regarding the number of workers, without counting those in companies in the agricultural sector or those linked to the public administration, they have increased by 11,692 more (+0.52%) over 2021 and by 143,548 compared to 2018 (+6.78% ).
Malaga leads the provincial breakdown
By province, the largest number of companies, according to the complete series, is located in Málaga (136,230), which concentrates 21.44% of the total companies. They follow him Sevillawhere 20.91% of Andalusian companies (132,839) are located, Granada (71.006), Cadiz (67.005), Almeria (65.125), y Córdoba (61,949). They close the list Jaenwith 54,973 companies, and Huelvacon 30.156.
In addition to the companies located in each of the provinces, the IECA statistics collect 16,066 more companies that have business centers in Andalusia, although its headquarters are located outside the autonomous community.
According to the number of workers, Seville is the province in which the most people work in companies. There are 774,669 and represent 26.92% of the total.
The next is Málaga, with 424,416 (16.97% of the total), and after this, Almería, with 227,839 workers. They are followed by Cádiz (224,397), Granada (221,798), Jaén (210,253), Córdoba (207,211). The province of Huelva closes the statistics, with 119,037 workers in companies with economic activity in 2022. In that year, companies located outside Andalusia employed in the community 467.666 personas.
By sectors, they are services professionalstogether with the sector of trade and the agricultural sector those with the most companies in Andalusia, with 161,582, 136,133 and 100,037 companies, respectively, which represents 62.6% of companies and 46.09% of employment.
In Andalusia there are also 30,742 companies belonging to the industry and energy59,357 companies in the construction30,870 dedicated to Logistics and Transportation51,036 companies hostelry9,351 from the communication12,984 of banking and insuranceand 43,347 companies linked to the services provided by the public administration.
6.5% reduction in Spain
In the last year, due to modification of the methodology applied by the INE to prepare the DIRCE, the number of companies has been reduced in Spain by 223,083 (-6.5%), with falls in all the autonomous communities.
According to the methodological note that accompanies the official publication of the statistics, “the new definition of an economically active company, implemented in 2022, affects the calculation of the number of active companies, so the data are not comparable with those of previous years.” .
According to the Statistics of Commercial Companies (SM), published on February 9, 2024 and corresponding to December 2023, in Andalusia 1,024 commercial companies were created in December in net terms, the difference between created and dissolved, with an increase of 5. 3% year-on-year, similar to that registered at the national level (5.4%).
In accumulated terms, during 2023, 15,341 commercial companies were created in net terms in Andalusia, the highest figure in a year since 2007, 18.4% of those incorporated in Spain. Over 2022, it registered an increase of 16.2%, almost two points above that registered at the national level (14.3%).
Companies registered with Social Security
According to the Statistics of Companies Registered in Social Security prepared by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy, the number of companies registered in Social Security at the end of January of this year in Andalusia is 254,295. Compared to January 2023, it grows by 2,082 companies, 0.8% year-on-year, almost double that of the national level (0.5%).
By sectors, increases were recorded both in the primary sector, with an increase of 0.9% year-on-year, in a context of zero growth in Spain (0%), and in companies in the non-agrarian sectors, of 0.8%. , almost double that at the national level (0.5%).
The number of workers in companies registered with Social Security in Andalusia is 2,355,459 people, a maximum in the historical series in the month of January. Compared to the same month of the previous year, there are 66,463 more workers, with an increase of 2.9% year-on-year.