Company & LLP Registration Trend in India — May 2016 to 2026
In short
Compare May Company and LLP registrations in India from 2016 to 2026 with numbers, percentage shares and year-on-year trends.
This page compares May Company and LLP registrations in India across the available MCA monthly data from 2016 onward.
Numbers are shown together with each entity type's percentage share of the month's total. This makes it possible to see not only whether registrations increased, but whether India's preferred legal-structure mix changed over time.
May Registration Trend — 2016 to 2026
| Year | Private | OPC | Public | Foreign | LLP | Total | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 9,561 (73.8%) | 456 (3.5%) | 178 (1.4%) | 25 (0.2%) | 2,733 (21.1%) | 12,953 | — |
| 2017 | 9,062 (73.1%) | 450 (3.6%) | 161 (1.3%) | 6 (0.0%) | 2,723 (22.0%) | 12,402 | (-4.3%) |
| 2018 | 9,976 (75.8%) | 541 (4.1%) | 250 (1.9%) | 8 (0.1%) | 2,387 (18.1%) | 13,162 | (6.1%) |
| 2019 | 10,307 (69.6%) | 700 (4.7%) | 274 (1.9%) | 13 (0.1%) | 3,509 (23.7%) | 14,803 | (12.5%) |
| 2020 | 4,379 (72.2%) | 355 (5.9%) | 101 (1.7%) | 6 (0.1%) | 1,224 (20.2%) | 6,065 | (-59.0%) |
| 2021 | 9,903 (69.4%) | 781 (5.5%) | 231 (1.6%) | 9 (0.1%) | 3,353 (23.5%) | 14,277 | (135.4%) |
| 2022 | 15,340 (80.1%) | 878 (4.6%) | 295 (1.5%) | 2 (0.0%) | 2,644 (13.8%) | 19,159 | (34.2%) |
| 2023 | 15,929 (69.9%) | 877 (3.9%) | 213 (0.9%) | 4 (0.0%) | 5,753 (25.3%) | 22,776 | (18.9%) |
| 2024 | 14,933 (69.3%) | 1,042 (4.8%) | 101 (0.5%) | 5 (0.0%) | 5,464 (25.4%) | 21,545 | (-5.4%) |
| 2025 | 19,148 (67.9%) | 1,414 (5.0%) | 152 (0.5%) | 6 (0.0%) | 7,487 (26.5%) | 28,207 | (30.9%) |
| 2026 | 20,415 (65.7%) | 1,333 (4.3%) | 111 (0.4%) | 9 (0.0%) | 9,216 (29.6%) | 31,084 | (10.2%) |
Across the available May observations, total registrations moved from 12,953 in 2016 to 31,084 in 2026, a change of (140.0%). The table should be read as a structural comparison: a rising percentage share means an entity type is gaining importance within that month's registration mix.
Data note: November 2021, January 2022 and March 2022 are unavailable in the current MCA source set and are not estimated.
About the Data
Source: monthly incorporation data published by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA). Historical MCA formats changed over time; Registration Trend normalises comparable fields and discloses missing periods rather than estimating them.
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