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DEFINITION:
Micro, small, and medium-size enterprises are business that may be defined by the number of employees. There is no international standard definition of firm size; however, many institutions that collect information use the following size categories: micro enterprises have 0-9 employees, small enterprises have 10-49 employees, and medium-size enterprises have 50-249 employees.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Indonesia | 195.27 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
2 | Sweden | 99.56 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
3 | Paraguay | 98.44 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
4 | Cyprus | 88.31 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
5 | Kenya | 87.39 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
6 | Iceland | 87.13 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
7 | Ecuador | 83.57 per 1,000 people | 2001 | ||
8 | Belize | 82.93 per 1,000 people | 1993 | ||
9 | New Zealand | 82.25 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
10 | Italy | 77.88 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
11 | Malta | 77.18 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
12 | Tanzania | 74.58 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
13 | United Kingdom | 73.79 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
14 | Spain | 73.02 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
15 | El Salvador | 72.1 per 1,000 people | 2001 | ||
16 | Bermuda | 71.71 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
17 | Greece | 69.94 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
18 | Canada | 69.51 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
19 | Norway | 68.4 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
20 | Israel | 67.64 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
21 | Bolivia | 67.01 per 1,000 people | 1995 | ||
22 | Portugal | 66.37 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
23 | Belgium | 66.16 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
24 | Malawi | 64.92 per 1,000 people | 2000 | ||
25 | Australia | 63.16 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
26 | South Korea | 62.36 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
27 | Mauritius | 62.19 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
28 | Lebanon | 59.39 per 1,000 people | 1996 | ||
29 | Luxembourg | 53.68 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
30 | Estonia | 48.43 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
31 | Russia | 48.15 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
32 | Denmark | 47.76 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
33 | Switzerland | 46.87 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
34 | Slovenia | 45.63 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
35 | Netherlands | 45.05 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
36 | Japan | 44.71 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
37 | Dominican Republic | 43.62 per 1,000 people | 1999 | ||
38 | Chile | 43.41 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
39 | Poland | 43.26 per 1,000 people | 2001 | ||
40 | France | 43.17 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
41 | Uruguay | 42.8 per 1,000 people | 2000 | ||
42 | Finland | 42.39 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
43 | Honduras | 40.15 per 1,000 people | 2000 | ||
44 | Hong Kong | 38.35 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
45 | Germany | 38.34 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
46 | Jamaica | 37.1 per 1,000 people | 1996 | ||
47 | Netherlands Antilles | 36.31 per 1,000 people | 1998 | ||
48 | United Arab Emirates | 34.19 per 1,000 people | 1995 | ||
49 | Armenia | 33.09 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
50 | Nicaragua | 32.84 per 1,000 people | 1999 | ||
51 | Singapore | 32.16 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
52 | Austria | 30.88 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
53 | Laos | 30.41 per 1,000 people | 1996 | ||
54 | Guyana | 29.77 per 1,000 people | 1998 | ||
55 | Mexico | 28.33 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
56 | Kyrgyzstan | 28.28 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
57 | Bulgaria | 27.67 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
58 | Brazil | 27.41 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
59 | Jordan | 26.42 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
60 | Egypt | 25.47 per 1,000 people | 1998 | ||
61 | Argentina | 24.49 per 1,000 people | 1999 | ||
62 | Ireland | 24.28 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
63 | Peru | 23.9 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
64 | Virgin Islands | 23.19 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
65 | South Africa | 22.01 per 1,000 people | 1997 | ||
66 | Croatia | 21.18 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
67 | Iran | 20.62 per 1,000 people | 1997 | ||
68 | Malaysia | 20.48 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
69 | United States | 19.99 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
70 | Pakistan | 18.98 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
71 | Algeria | 18.76 per 1,000 people | 2001 | ||
72 | Romania | 18.1 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
73 | Guam | 17.15 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
74 | Lithuania | 16.53 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
75 | Yemen | 16.24 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
76 | Guatemala | 15.92 per 1,000 people | 1999 | ||
77 | Morocco | 15.8 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
78 | Colombia | 15.01 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
79 | Tajikistan | 14.77 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
80 | Trinidad and Tobago | 14.72 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
81 | Latvia | 13.81 per 1,000 people | 2001 | ||
82 | Panama | 13.7 per 1,000 people | 1999 | ||
83 | Thailand | 13.46 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
84 | Slovakia | 13.11 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
85 | Albania | 12.32 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
86 | Philippines | 10.09 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
87 | Costa Rica | 9.62 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
88 | Serbia and Montenegro | 8.42 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
89 | Uzbekistan | 8.31 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
90 | Georgia | 7.57 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
91 | Botswana | 7.44 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
92 | Ukraine | 7.3 per 1,000 people | 2005 | ||
93 | China | 6.34 per 1,000 people | 2000 | ||
94 | Sri Lanka | 6.31 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
95 | Uganda | 6.18 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
96 | Moldova | 6.07 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
97 | Azerbaijan | 6.01 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
98 | East Timor | 4.48 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
99 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3.82 per 1,000 people | 2003 | ||
100 | Kazakhstan | 3.4 per 1,000 people | 1994 | ||
101 | Turkey | 3.12 per 1,000 people | 2000 | ||
102 | Oman | 2.91 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
103 | Belarus | 2.53 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
104 | Bangladesh | 1.27 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
105 | Ghana | 1.19 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
106 | Vietnam | 1.11 per 1,000 people | 2004 | ||
107 | Tunisia | 0.91 per 1,000 people | 1999 | ||
108 | Sudan | 0.67 per 1,000 people | 2001 | ||
109 | Puerto Rico | 0.54 per 1,000 people | 2002 | ||
110 | Venezuela | 0.47 per 1,000 people | 2000 | ||
111 | India | 0.3 per 1,000 people | 1998 | ||
112 | Nepal | 0.12 per 1,000 people | 2001 |