In the next few days The Ministry of Economy will publish a survey of companies that will realize that In 2024 about 13,000 productive units were lost, And of them, some 5,200 were industrial. It is a report on the birth and mortality of SMEs, which indicates that last year 53,000 new signatures were created and about 66,000 were closed.
With these data the Treasury Palace seeks to put this reality in specific numbers, given the appearance of different works of analysts made based on data from the Argentine Integrated System (SIPA) or the Superintendence of Labor Risks (SRT).
The figure was anticipated by the Secretary of SMEs, entrepreneurs and knowledge economy, Marcos Ayerra, within the framework of a streaming transmission carried out by the General Business Confederation of the Argentine Republic (CGERA). Ayerra He explained that the decline in the number of companies was due more than anything to a lower birth of the usual, since although there was also closure of companies, in relation to the historical average, it was also lower.
The official inherited most of the programs of what was previously known as MINISTRY OF PRODUCTION. From there he maintains fluid contact with business entities, whose leaders must explain that the government of Javier Milei has no intention of carrying out sectoral policies or what is known as “active policies.”
During the interview he carried out The president of the CGERA, Marcelo Fernández, Ayerra was consulted on whether there is a government part number over the number of companies in Argentina, with birth and mortality rates.
Survey of the Productive Park
“To begin, since 2007 that the number of employers does not change, There are about 540,000 in Argentina. That is, in 17 years there has been any change, ”said yesterday, remembering that its agency had a survey since 2007 on the country’s productive park that reaches until 2023. That is what is published. Yesterday indicated that “Next week we will be publishing the 2024”.
Within that framework, the official explained that throughout the entire series of data, on average, per year, there was the creation of 69,000 companies, while an identical numbers of signatures died. “Argentina has overwhelmed entrepreneurship,” said Ayerra.
In that sense, the secretary of SMEs clarified that “in recent times what we have seen is that They were born less in 2024. There were about 53,000 companies, And the truth is that it is understood in the framework of so much transformation of the paradigms of how to do things in Argentina. ”
“But this is important. No more companies have died than in the historical series “explained yesterday, who indicated that “in the historical average there were 69,000 companies per year They stopped using, but in 2024 they were 66,000. And the industry is approximately 12% of the total, ”confirmed the official.
As for industrial SMEs, the area’s secretary said “Historically they have closed 5,700 per year but in 2024 they closed 5,200.”
“That is, if one wonders what happened, what I interpret, since I also see in the world entrepreneur hope or support for this new model, is that It was a hard year, obviously, of transformation, but people endured ”, explained. “Because they closed less than the average. Now, They have been born less, but 52,000 companies were born, that is, it is no small thing ”, The official said to explain the decrease of companies in the First year of government management of Javier Milei.
Data Center for Argentine Political Economics (CEPA), based on information from the Superintendence of Occupational Risks, They point out that Between November 2023 and April of this year, 15,557 employers were lost. In the same period, 237,445 jobs were destroyed, but from them the sector with the greatest absolute loss of employment was “Public Administration, Defense and Compulsory Social Security” with 138,617 workers.
Source: Ambito
