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UK Companies Statistics.
Live and official statistics on the UK Companies House register — total companies, incorporations, dissolutions and more.
Active Companies
5.50M
Currently active on the register
Live
Total Register
5.48M
Including dissolving & liquidating
Official · Mar 2026
New This Year
815K
Incorporated Apr 2025 – Mar 2026
CH Stats FYE26
New Per Day
2,234+
Average daily registrations
Calculated
Company Types (Active)
Private Limited (Ltd)
95%+ of register
5.17M
Public Limited (PLC)
Listed companies
4K
LLP
Professional firms
50K
In Liquidation
Winding up proceedings
109K
Register Metrics
Average Company Age
Average age of all UK registered entities
9.0 Years
Dissolved This Year
Companies removed from register, FYE 2026
787K
▼
Overseas Establishments
Foreign companies with a UK branch
14,574
Incorporation Trend
FYE 2026 vs prior year (FYE 2025)
+1.7%
▲
Dissolution Trend
FYE 2026 vs prior year (FYE 2025)
+8.3%
▼
Annual Incorporations — Historical Trend
FYE 2026 — full year (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026):
Q1: 209,798 · Q2: 215,982 · Q3: 184,888 · Q4: 204,612 · total: 815,280.
Published 30 April 2026 on GOV.UK — the final release in this format; Companies House is developing a new statistics product.
Register by Country — Mar 2026
🏴
4.79M
England & Wales
🏴
272K
Scotland
🇬🇧
91K
Northern Ireland
🌍
14,574
Overseas (UK branch)
Incorporations vs Dissolutions (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026)
New Incorporations
815,280
▲ 1.7%
vs prior year
Total Dissolutions
787,261
▲ 8.3%
vs prior year
Net gain to register in 2025/26:
28,019 companies
· Dissolutions trending higher partly due to ECCT Act 2023 enforcement
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Ownership records (PSC)
28.5M
Filed accounts
4.5M
Property titles
1.4M
ICO registrations
397k
Charities
57k
Care services (CQC)
26k
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📊 Data Sources: All statistics are sourced from official Companies House publications under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Annual figures cover the financial year April to March. Live register counts are refreshed daily from the Companies House Advanced Search API. The latest official statistics cover FYE 2026 (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026), published 30 April 2026 — the final release in this format; Companies House is developing a new statistics product, and these figures will be updated when it is published.