UK company statistics

The register today

There are 5,163,695 active companies registered in the UK, out of 13,715,633 ever registered at Companies House. 7,968,580 companies are dissolved and 107,891 are in liquidation.

645,050 new companies have been incorporated so far in 2026, against 829,876 in the whole of 2025.

Deeper numbers

• The oldest companies in the UK
  from 1416, nationally and by industry and area
• Incorporations by year
  every year since 1980, charted
• Company survival rates
  how many companies from each year are still alive
• Corporate political donations
  by year, by party, and the biggest donors
• Gender pay gap statistics
  national and sector medians, 9 reporting years
• The pay gap league table
  named employers, three orderings