The number of legal persons registered in the country in 2006 increased by 6%, and to January 1, 2007, their number had reached 74,534. Trend has been informed by the State Statistics Committee that in the reporting period, a total of 5,123 new entities were established. 756 on the contrary, suspended their activity.
49,1% out of the total number of the entities which suspended their activity fall at the agriculture and forestry, 19,3% - wholesale and retail sale, repair of automobiles, home appliances, and things of private use, 7,8% - immovable property, rent, different services to the consumers, 5,6% - the construction sector, 5,4% - the state administration, defense, and the social service, 4%- rendering public utilities, social and private services, 3,7% - the reprocessing industry. At the same time, 155 state-controlled, 567 private, 32 foreign entities, and two joint-stock enterprises shut down its activity.
Most part (1,746) out of the entities established in the reporting period fell at the sphere of wholesale and retail sale, repair of automobiles, home appliances, and things of private use. A total of 722 new entities fall at the construction sector, 531 ones вЂ" in the field of rendering services connected with immovable property, 509 вЂ" in the sphere of public utilities, 4,860 in the agriculture, 407 вЂ" the reprocessing industry, etc.
88,4% out of the total number of newly-established entities are private ones, 3,5% - state-controlled, 7,6% - are entities with 100% foreign investments and joint-stock enterprises, 0,5% - fall at the municipalities
According to studies and researches which have been conducted since 2003, that 30,000-40,000 new jobs on average are available every quarter, with 51-52% out of them вЂ" on permanent basis.