Statistics at DBT
We publish statistics on business populations, building materials, small business surveys, international trade, strategic export controls, foreign direct investment and inward investment.
Release calendar
View the latest published and upcoming statistics for:
Official statistics
Business
- Business population estimates
- Longitudinal Small Business Survey
- UK Innovation Survey
- Building materials and components
Contact business.statistics@businessandtrade.gov.uk for enquiries on business statistics.
Trade and investment
- Market access barrier statistics
- DBT national survey of registered businesses’ exporting behaviours, attitudes and needs
- DBT inward investment results
- great.gov.uk performance dashboard
- Strategic export controls: licensing statistics
- Trade and investment core statistics book
- UK defence and security export figures
- UK trade in numbers
- Trade and investment factsheets
Contact statistics@businessandtrade.gov.uk for enquiries on trade and investment statistics.
Other official statistics and ad-hoc releases
The Office for Product Safety and Standards, within DBT, publishes statistical releases which can accessed on the Statistics at Office for Product Safety and Standards page on GOV.UK.
Net zero related inward investment in the UK: 18 November 2020 to 24 September 2021
Net zero related inward investment in the UK: 18 November 2020 to 12 October 2022
Inward investment in to freeports: December 2021 to November 2023
Number of exporting registered businesses in the UK, 2021
Number of exporting registered businesses in the UK, 2016 to 2022
Corporate procedures and standards
We produce National Statistics and official statistics in accordance with the guidance provided in the Code of Practice for Statistics. Details on how we do this are set out in these documents:
- DBT statement of compliance with the Pre-Release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008
- DBT statistical public engagement and data standards
- DBT accessibility statement for official statistics
- DBT statistical error and revision policy
Archived statistics
We publish our most recent statistics on GOV.UK. This includes statistics previously published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department for International Trade (DIT), both now closed.
Earlier versions of the former BEIS and DIT pages, equivalent to this one, are archived on GOV.UK. These include their associated historic publications: