Company & LLP Registration Trends in India — January 2016
In short
January 2016: 8,948 company and LLP registrations in India, with entity-wise numbers and percentage share.
January 2016 — Key Observations
January 2016 recorded 8,948 registrations. It is the first January in this series and the baseline for every later January comparison. It is the lowest January in the 2016–2026 series. Private Limited made up (76.3%) of the month, LLPs (17.5%) and OPCs (4.3%).
January 2016 recorded 8,948 company and LLP registrations in India, the baseline for this January-to-January research series. This report examines the legal-structure mix and tracks the same calendar month back to January 2016.
January 2016 — Legal structures registered
| Legal structure | Registrations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Private Limited Companies | 6,831 | (76.34%) |
| One Person Companies (OPC) | 386 | (4.31%) |
| Public Companies | 150 | (1.68%) |
| Foreign Companies | 11 | (0.12%) |
| Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP) | 1,570 | (17.55%) |
| Total registrations | 8,948 | (100.00%) |
Year-on-year comparison
January 2016 is the baseline. Growth percentages begin with January 2017.
January registration trend: 2016–2016
Every row refers to January of that year. Totals include Private Limited Companies, OPCs, Public Companies, Foreign Companies and LLPs. An unavailable source period is shown as a dash, not zero.
| Year | Private | OPC | LLP | Total | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6,831 | 386 | 1,570 | 8,948 | — |
* January 2022 is unavailable in the verified source dataset. January 2023's figure includes the 214 Public Companies verified in the corrected MCA master. Years without an immediately prior verified January do not show YoY growth.
What the numbers show
Private Limited Companies accounted for (76.34%) of this January's registrations, LLPs for (17.55%), and OPCs for (4.31%). These figures establish the starting point for analysing the changing entity mix in subsequent January reports.
Top 5 business activities — January 2016
These are January 2016's MCA legacy economic-activity descriptions, ranked separately for each legal structure. The percentages use the verified registrations of that structure as the denominator. Broad labels such as Business Services are the categories supplied by MCA and should not be confused with newer NIC-2008 two-digit divisions.
Top 5 — Private Limited Companies
| # | MCA business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Services |
3,281 (48.03%)
|
| 2 | Trading |
623 (9.12%)
|
| 3 | Construction |
516 (7.55%)
|
| 4 | Community, personal & Social Services |
368 (5.39%)
|
| 5 | Real Estate and Renting |
341 (4.99%)
|
Top 5 — Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)
| # | MCA business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Services |
568 (36.18%)
|
| 2 | Trading |
235 (14.97%)
|
| 3 | Real Estate and Renting |
166 (10.57%)
|
| 4 | Community, personal & Social Services |
149 (9.49%)
|
| 5 | Construction |
132 (8.41%)
|
Top 5 — One Person Companies (OPCs)
| # | MCA business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Services |
226 (58.55%)
|
| 2 | Community, personal & Social Services |
49 (12.69%)
|
| 3 | Trading |
30 (7.77%)
|
| 4 | Manufacturing (Machinery & Equipments) |
14 (3.63%)
|
| 5 | Construction |
12 (3.11%)
|
Explore the January research archive
← All January reports (2016–2026) · Next January: 2017
Data source and research methodology
Source: Ministry of Corporate Affairs monthly company and LLP incorporation reports. Counts are cross-checked against the revised and verified January 2016–September 2026 monthly master, which normalises company classes and removes repeated identifiers. Share = entity count / all January registrations. YoY = comparison with the immediately preceding January when both periods are verified. Incorporation data measure newly registered entities, not operational status, employment, revenue or business success.
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