This section provides key indicators on businesses in Monaco, enabling users to track their structure, development and economic impact.
Trade and Industry Register
The Trade and Industry Register (RCI) references all natural or legal persons, deemed as trading by law, and carrying out their commercial activities on the Principality’s territory.
Number of businesses
Number of establishments
Business
A business is defined as an organisational unit, under private or public law, that produces goods and services. This includes, but is not limited to:
- companies (SAMs, SARLs, non-trading companies, etc.);
- individual structures (sole traders, SURLs, liberal professions, etc.);
- associations (including federations and fondations).
Each company is assigned its own registration number when it is created and may have several establishments.
Change in the number of active businesses in the Trade and Industry Register by legal form:

Establishment
An establishment is defined as a production unit affiliated to a business, characterised by a specific activity or location. Each establishment carrying out an economic activity is assigned its own Statistical Identification Number (NIS).
Change in the number of active establishments in the Trade and Industry Register by legal form:
