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This question is about women entrepreneurship statistics.
What percentage of businesses are started by women?
16% of businesses are started by women. In 2017, 16% of startups had at least one female founder, and just 2.5% had only female founders.
However, women own 42% of small businesses in the U.S., so while there weren't necessarily a significant number of women starting businesses that year, women still make up almost half of small business owners in the country.
The number of female entrepreneurs has been and is continuing to go up as well, as there has been an increase of 114% over the last 20 years, and the number of women-owned small businesses went up by 58% during the eleven-year span between 2007 and 2018.
As of 2019, there are 12.9 million businesses owned by women, a significant increase from the mere 402,000 female-owned companies that existed in 1972.
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