The 46,600 Reunionese companies in the merchant sectors (non -agricultural and non -financial) achieved a turnover of 25 in 2020,5 billion euros and created 7,5 billion added value, according to INSEE. Five sectors strongly contribute to the creation of this added value : teaching, Human health and social action (outside the public sector), different business services, retail and construction. Two thirds of companies do not employ any employees. The others, numbering 14,364, employ 117,000 people as of December 31, 2020. They are mostly small in size : 11,870 companies employ between 1 and 9 employees, 2,460 between 10 and 249 employees, and 34 more than 250 employees. On the year 2020, Reunion companies have invested 2 billion euros. Those in the real estate sector made 41% of these investments. Investment is extremely concentrated, underlines INSEE. Excluding microentrepreneurs and microenterprises in the tax sense, 93% of total investment is made by 1,800 companies, i.e. almost 5% of Reunion companies. Conversely, 60% of the latter made no investment in 2020, year it is true marked by the health crisis. The added value is a little less concentrated : 64% of added value is created by 5% of companies. On a national level, this proportion is even higher : 5% of French companies achieve 80% of added value.
Reunion Island companies have created 7,5 billion euros of added value in 2020
