Madrid (EFE) .
According to data published this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), of the total number of companies dissolved in April, 82% did so voluntarily, 7.9% due to merger and the remaining 10.1% for other reasons.
The total capital subscribed for the constitution of the new companies exceeded 280 million euros, with an annual decrease of 0.8%, while the average capital subscribed fell by 2.5%, to 32,538 euros.
On the other hand, in April 2,258 mercantile companies increased their capital, 2% more than in the same month of 2022, with a subscribed capital that registered an increase of 54.7% and reached 1,531 million euros and an average capital of 678,109 euros, 51.6% more in annual rate.
Most correspond to trade
18.6% of the commercial companies created in April correspond to commerce, 15.7% to real estate, financial and insurance and 13.5% to construction, details the INE.
Regarding the dissolved companies, 19.2% belong to commerce, 17.1% to real estate, finance and insurance and 17% to construction.
The autonomous communities with the highest number of commercial companies created in the fourth month of the year were Madrid (1,868), Catalonia (1,825) and Andalusia (1,505), while La Rioja (27), Navarra (51) and Cantabria (56) were the regions with the least number of commercial companies created.
Regarding dissolved commercial companies, those with the highest number were Madrid (516), Andalusia (249) and Catalonia (132), while those with the fewest dissolved companies were Navarra (3), La Rioja (7) and Asturias ( twenty-one).