In 2022, 86.7% of micro and small businesses (mypes) that operated in Peru were informal, an increase of 0.4% compared to 2021 and 2.9% compared to 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic; according to data from the National Household Survey (Enaho) presented by the Foreign Trade Society of Peru (ComexPerú) during the XVI APEC SME Summit.
According to the data, last year, the number of Peruvian mypes rose to 6.11 million, an increase of 11.9% compared to 5.46 million in 2021 and 0.8% above the 6 06 million in 2019. Of this total, approximately 5.3 million were not registered with Sunat.
“Compared to 2021, the departments with the highest proportion of informal mypes continued to be located in the north and east of the country. On the contrary, the departments with the lowest relative number of informal mypes continued to be located in the south of the country,” noted ComexPeru.
The union specified that those departments that reduced their informality rate between 2021 and 2022 were Áncash, Apurímac, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Cusco, Huancavelica, Madre de Dios, Moquegua, Pasco, Tacna and Ucayali.
Regarding the Mypes Formal Capacity Index, an indicator that measures how capable micro and small companies are to be formal through the characteristics of their business, it reached a national average of 0.248 in 2022, on a scale in which 0 represents a lower formal capacity, while 1, a higher one.
The average is slightly above the 2021 level (0.241), but below the 2019 average (0.253) before the coronavirus pandemic.
“The mypes with the highest score in the Formal Capacity Index are located on the central and southern coast of the country, in Ancash and Madre de Dios,” said ComexPerú, specifying that the qualities measured by the index are accounting practices; type of ownership and use of business premises; characteristics of the basic services and use in the establishment; and characteristics of employment in mypes.
Mypes employed more than 8 million people
The mypes during 2022 represented 96.4% of the business fabric of our country and the number of sales already exceeds the prevailing levels, he stressed Julia Torreblancapresident of ComexPeru.
In addition, he stressed that these business units are a source of work for millions of Peruvians. “Mypes employ 8.5 million people, which is equivalent to 46% of the economically active population,” he remarked.
Likewise, he highlighted that financial inclusion in this sector, driven by the pandemic, has gone from 35.1% in 2019 to 48.2% in 2020.
The XVI APEC SME Summit 2023, organized by ComexPerú, takes place on September 5, 2023 at The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center. The event analyzes development and growth alternatives for mypes and new ventures.
Source: Larepublica
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