Abstract:
The demography of enterprises in Russia is a relatively new scientific direction related to the study of life cycles in the enterprise sector, such as creation and liquidation, mergence and separation, subsidiaries generation, etc. This scientific field is a fairly new direction, so it is not enough studied in national and foreign economic literature, which determines the relevance of the application for various studies of entrepreneurship. The obtained facts about the establishment and liquidation of companies is a basement for measuring entrepreneurial activity, identifying incentives and barriers of its activation, as well as for forecasting the development of the economy and society.