Employing Companies: the Fall Accelerated in May and only One Province Showed Growth
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The number of companies was 481,724 in May, a figure lower than the historical peak, which was reached in February 2012 with 540,282 firms.
The Argentine business network again showed signs of deterioration in May. The number of employers in the private sector fell 3.3% year-on-year, which meant the loss of 16,422 firms in comparison to the same month of 2025, according to a report by the consultant Politikon Chaco elaborated on data from the Superintendency of Labor Risks (SRT). In total, in that month 477,463 firms active in the private sector were counted. In addition, the regres…
More than 30,000 companies have closed their doors in Argentina since the ultraliberal Javier Milei assumed the government at the end of 2023, with policies that have particularly affected the trade sector and several industrial branches. “Since assuming Milei 30,633 companies were lost, 6% of the total. It is the worst fall in the first 30 months of a government,” said in a recent report the Fundar think tank, with data to last May. Economy and…
Between November 2023 and May 2026, the register of employers in Argentina recorded a fall of 30,633 production units.
Mendoza ended May with 698 employers less than a year ago, according to two reports based on data from the Superintendency of Labor Risks (SRT), prepared by the consultant Politikon Chaco and Fundación Fundar. Both surveys place the year-on-year fall of the province at around 3.4%. The regression is not recent: since November 2023, the province accumulates a 6.4% loss in its business network, a decrease slightly higher than that recorded in the …
The province of Neuquén is the only jurisdiction in the country that recorded an increase in the number of companies in operation, based on the impulse given by Vaca Muerta. Official data to May show an improvement of 0.1% regarding the same period last year since the creation of 13 new companies. At the national level, the scenario shows a opposite trend. In May 2026, 477,463 employers active in the private sector were counted, a figure that is…
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