Company & LLP Registration Trends in India — May 2023
In short
May 2023: 22,776 Company and LLP registrations in India, with historical May comparison from 2016 onward.
Financial-year context: May 2023 falls in FY 2023–24. Monthly counts remain observations for the named month, not full-year totals. January–March 2016 is excluded from the website comparison series.
May 2023 recorded 22,776 Company and LLP registrations in India. This page places the month in context by comparing May 2023 with earlier available May data from 2016 onward.
Private Companies: 15,929 (69.9%) • OPC: 877 (3.9%) • LLP: 5,753 (25.3%)
Total registrations: 22,776
May Registration Trend — 2016 to 2023
Each row below represents the same calendar month — May — so the comparison is not distorted by normal differences between months.
| Financial year | Private | OPC | Public | Foreign | LLP | Total | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 May 2016 |
9,561 | 456 | 178 | 25 | 2,733 | 12,953 | — |
| 2017–18 May 2017 |
9,062 | 450 | 161 | 6 | 2,723 | 12,402 | (-4.3%) |
| 2018–19 May 2018 |
9,976 | 541 | 250 | 8 | 2,387 | 13,162 | (+6.1%) |
| 2019–20 May 2019 |
10,307 | 700 | 274 | 13 | 3,509 | 14,803 | (+12.5%) |
| 2020–21 May 2020 |
4,379 | 355 | 101 | 6 | 1,224 | 6,065 | (-59.0%) |
| 2021–22 May 2021 |
9,903 | 781 | 231 | 9 | 3,353 | 14,277 | (+135.4%) |
| 2022–23 May 2022 |
15,340 | 878 | 295 | 2 | 2,644 | 19,159 | (+34.2%) |
| 2023–24 May 2023 |
15,929 | 877 | 213 | 4 | 5,753 | 22,776 | (+18.9%) |
What the May 2023 data shows
Private Companies formed (69.9%) of all May 2023 registrations, while LLPs accounted for (25.3%). OPCs contributed (3.9%).
Top 5 Business Activities in May 2023: Private Limited, LLP and OPC
These rankings are calculated from the declared business-activity descriptions in the MCA incorporation records for May 2023. Counts refer to newly incorporated entities, not turnover, employment or later business performance. Percentages are calculated separately within each legal structure.
Private Limited Companies — Top 5 of 15,929
| Declared business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|
| Community, personal & Social Services | 4,174 (26.20%) |
| Trading | 2,551 (16.01%) |
| Business Services | 2,304 (14.46%) |
| Construction | 1,021 (6.41%) |
| Transport, storage and Communications | 931 (5.84%) |
Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) — Top 5 of 5,753
| Declared business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|
| Community, personal & Social Services | 1,524 (26.49%) |
| Trading | 1,017 (17.68%) |
| Real Estate and Renting | 654 (11.37%) |
| Business Services | 581 (10.10%) |
| Construction | 543 (9.44%) |
One Person Companies (OPCs) — Top 5 of 877
| Declared business activity | Registrations (share) |
|---|---|
| Community, personal & Social Services | 287 (32.73%) |
| Business Services | 182 (20.75%) |
| Trading | 176 (20.07%) |
| Construction | 48 (5.47%) |
| Transport, storage and Communications | 42 (4.79%) |
What stands out: Community, personal & Social Services leads in all three business structures for May 2023.
Source and method: MCA monthly incorporation Excel records (Monthly-Company(Indian-and-Foreign)and-LLPs-incorporation-FO-portal-Report_MAY2023-20230602.xlsx), grouped by entity classification and the reported ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION / Activity Description field. Categories are reproduced as reported, so labels should not be interpreted as fine-grained industry classifications.
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How to read this data
Registration numbers measure the creation of legal entities. They do not indicate later profitability, funding, employment or continued activity.
Source: MCA monthly incorporation data compiled in the CompanysRegistration.com Registration Trend dataset.
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