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Size analysis of businesses: 2025 (headline results)
A report which gives estimates of the size structure of all enterprises that are active in Wales for 2025.
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- There were an estimated 246,500 enterprises active in Wales, employing an estimated 1.1 million people.
- The majority of active enterprises were micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with 0 to 249 employees. They accounted for 99.3% of total enterprises in Wales in 2025. Micro enterprises (0 to 9 employees) accounted for 94.6% of the total enterprises in Wales.
- Large enterprises (those with 250 or more employees) accounted for 37.7% of employment in Wales compared with 40.2% for the UK as a whole.
- Since 2003 the proportion of employment in large enterprises decreased by 3.9 percentage points.
- Around 0.7% of enterprises active in Wales were non-UK owned. These enterprises accounted for 15.9% of employment.
- There was considerable variation between industry sectors, with employment in agriculture, forestry and fishing dominated by micro businesses (81.6%) and employment in production industries concentrated in the large size-band (49.5%).
