New Kauffman Index

New Kauffman Index Presents State of Entrepreneurship in America

A national assessment of entrepreneurial activity by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation provides some eye-popping numbers. The new report shows that there were 464,000 people creating new business each month in 2005 – a rate of 0.29 percent of the total adult population. Besides year-to-year changes in entrepreneurship activity, the Kauffman Index -- defined as the percent of the adult U.S. population of non-business owners who start a business as their main job each month -- captures long-term trends. While the 2005 figure is actually down slightly from the previous year, it is equal to the average rate for the past ten years.

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