According to the third wave of the Sine survey (New Business Information System) from INSEE, among companies or individual businesses founded in 2018 in Reunion, 68% were still in business five years later.
The five-year sustainability rate of Reunion companies created in 2018 is significantly higher than that of companies created in 2014 (57 %), measured during the previous wave of the survey. It is approximately equivalent at the national level (69 %). In Reunion as in France, five-year sustainability is significantly higher for companies (75 %) only for individual businesses (56 %). Reunion companies are a little more sustainable than French companies (71 %), but individual businesses are less so (63 %). This increase is explained in particular by a clear drop in the share of traditional individual businesses among all creations : in the meeting, they only make up 40% of business creations in 2018 compared to 62% in 2014. The majority of new businesses are now corporations, much more sustainable than individual businesses. The decline in these creations is linked to the broadening of the conditions of access to the microentrepreneur regime, more suitable for certain cases, as of January 1, 2018. The aid paid during the health crisis that began in March 2020 also had a positive effect on the sustainability of young businesses. 93% of those who received a subsidy were still active in 2023, compared to 85% of those who did not receive any. On the other hand, 48% of companies created in 2018 are employers after five years of activity. Fin 2023, 2,960 people worked in companies created in the first half of 2018, including 1,650 employees, i.e. 650 more than at the end of 2018. Five years later, half of the companies still active employed at least one employee in addition to the manager. Within traditional individual businesses, only 16% were employers.
