Total finance obtained by SMEs in the UK, 2019-2023

In a survey conducted between October 2023 and April 2024, small and medium enterprise (SME) employers in the United Kingdom (UK) were asked what amount of external finance they obtained in the past 12 months. The largest share of SMEs (23 percent) stated that they did not obtained any external finance or obtained finance amounting to between 25 thousand British pounds and 100 thousand British pounds at that time. Only less than 0.5 percent of SMEs in the UK stated that they secured financing amounting to more than ten million British pounds in 2023.

在2023年10月至2024年4月期间进行的一项调查中，英国的小型企业（SME）雇主被询问在过去12个月内他们获得了多少外部资金。在所有SME中，占比最大的（23%）表示他们在当时并未获得任何外部资金，或者所获得的资金额度介于2.5万至10万英镑之间。仅有不到0.5%的英国SME在2023年表示他们获得了超过一千万英镑的融资。