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Yearly Trends of SMEs

Unit : Number of Firms and Persons and %

infomation
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of
Firms
(unit:1,000)
Total 6,085 6,301 6,644 6,899 7,295 7,724
SMEs
(ratio)
6,081
99.93%
6,296
99.92%
6,639
99.92%
6,890
99.87%
7,286
99.88%
7,714
99.87%
Number of
Employees
(unit:1,000)
Total 19,635 20,095 20,592 21,255 21,580 22,865
SMEs
(ratio)
16,362
83.33%
16,690
83.06%
17,104
83.06%
17,274
81.27%
17,541
81.28%
18,493
80.88%

Source : National Statistics Office

Contribution by Big Corporations and SMEs
in Manufacturing to Economic Development
infomation
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of
Firms
(unit:1,000)
SMEs
(ratio)
6,081
99.9%
6,296
99.9%
6,639
99.9%
6,890
99.9%
7,286
99.9%
7,714
99.9%
LEs
(ratio)
4
0.1%
5
0.1%
5
0.1%
9
0.1%
9
0.1%
10
0.1%
Number of Employees
(Number of persons)
(unit:1,000)
SMEs
(ratio)
16,362
83.3%
16,690
83.1%
17,104
83.1%
17,461
81.0%
17,792
81.1%
18,493
80.9%
LEs
(ratio)
3,274
16.7%
3,405
16.9%
3,488
16.9%
4,083
19.0%
4,143
18.9%
4,373
19.1%
Sales
(100 million KRW)
SMEs
(ratio)
24,225,339
41.0%
25,874,890
48.6%
26,628,830
48.5%
26,542,289
47.1%
26,745,661
47.2%
30,171,248
46.8%
LEs
(ratio)
34,925,709
59.0%
27,358,557
51.4%
28,282,238
51.5%
29,756,398
52.9%
29,866,081
52.8%
34,329,590
53.2%

Source : National Statistics Office