Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Country Indicators (MSME-CI) provides both the latest global snapshot and historic data back 25 years on the number of MSMEs (disaggregated by firm size) in 155 world economies.

These datasets can help you find the answers to questions such as:

• How many MSMEs are there in a given country?
• How many jobs are provided by MSMEs?
• What is the firm size-breakdown within the MSME sector?
• How did the number of MSMEs change over the past 15-25 years?
• How do Statistical Institutes, Ministries of Finance, MSME Associations or groups alike define MSMEs? And what are the most common definitions?
• What are the relationships between the number of MSMEs and income per capita, business regulatory environment, access to finance, informality?
• What are the growth rate trends across regions and economies from different income groups?
• What is the composition of MSMEs from a sector standpoint?

Please read the ‘Description Note on the MSME Country Indicators’ along with the country specific comments in the MSME-CI excel workbook before using the data. MSME-CI presents secondary data. The data are not always standardized across countries and time. The original data are collected by various institutions (statistical institutes, ministries, and small business promotion agencies, research institutions and others) using different methods (e.g., census). Only clean data is presented on the data visualization maps (excluding economies whose information is not census data or not covering all sectors in the economy - except for agriculture - or outliers). However all data (clean and not clean) is included in the downloadable full database files below.