Year Number of Firms 1992-01-01 4107 1997-01-01 6717 2002-01-01 6476 2003-01-01 6615 2004-01-01 6628 2005-01-01 6813 2006-01-01 7213 2007-01-01 7784 2008-01-01 8168 2009-01-01 7849 2010-01-01 8167 2011-01-01 8654 2012-01-01 8610 2013-01-01 8766 2014-01-01 8882 2015-01-01 8673 2016-01-01 8485