In the year 2012 almost 20% of start ups is non-Dutch

In the calender year 2012 20% of the one person business start ups came from outside the Netherlands, this was reported by the Chamber of Commerce. Especially an increase number of start ups came from Turkey, Morocco and Germany. The year 2012 represented a decrease in the number of start ups compared with 2011, in total 20100 start ups. But a growth from 2007 as the number of start ups was in total 17000.

The percentage of female start ups is 36%.

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