A record number of Americans have become entrepreneurs during the pandemic, with the demand for new businesses reaching huge proportions, according to a visualcapitalist.com analysis based on figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published in 2024. But running a business is difficult, and the evolution of the number of companies in the US from 2013 to 2023 highlights this. Not surprisingly, the survival rates of new American businesses depend on the industry in which they operate,