Average life expectancy of small and micro enterprises in China
2.9 years. According to Sina Stock Bar, with the accelerated development of the times and the intensification of market competition, the average life span of enterprises is gradually shortening. The average life span of listed companies in the United States is about ten years, the average life span of small and medium-sized enterprises is less than seven years, the average life span of large enterprises is less than forty years, and the average life span of the world's top 500 super-large enterprises is only forty-two years. The situation in China is not much better. According to unreliable data, since the beginning of the new century, the average life expectancy of Chinese enterprises is about 4 years, 2.9 years for small and micro enterprises and 78 years for large companies. Some large state-owned enterprises have lived for a long time and cannot do without monopoly and lasting capital injection.