During the event to recognize entrepreneurs, who through their stories have vindicated the role of entrepreneurs in building a more equitable and prosperous society, the Chamber of Commerce released figures that show that the city and the region are very close to consolidating the economic recovery, measured by the number of companies created and active.

According to Nicolás Uribe Rueda, executive president of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce, "the current fabric of the business sector in Bogota and the Region is made up of 93.1% micro-enterprises, 4.9% small and 1.4% medium-sized companies. Thanks to the good performance of the business sector, there has been a decrease in the unemployment rate in Bogota for the month of July 2022, of 4.6 percentage points compared to the same period in 2021, standing at 10.8%".

This behavior shows that the city and the region are on a solid path of recovery in business dynamics, hand in hand with micro-enterprises. Figures for Bogota and the 59 municipalities in Cundinamarca under the jurisdiction of the CCB • For the first eight months of the year, 450,180 companies were active in Bogota and the 59 municipalities under the jurisdiction of the CCB. For the same period of 2019, 458,146 companies were active, i.e., only 7,966 companies are still to be recovered to reach the same level. • Active companies have grown 7% compared to the period January - August 2021, when 420,779 active companies were registered. • For the period January - August 2022 the number of companies created in Bogota and the region was 66,073 companies, this represents an increase of 8.7% compared to the same period in 2021, a growth of 34.7% compared to the same period in 2020 and a decrease of 4.2% compared to 2019. • Of the companies created, 82.4% were registered in Bogotá and the remaining 17.6% in the 59 municipalities. The service sector accounted for 54.6% of the companies created, followed by commerce with 31.2% and industry with 14.2% of the companies created. • 71.8% of the companies created were under the legal organization of natural persons and 28.2% were registered as legal entities. • So far in 2022, inflation for the country as a whole stood at 9.06%, which is 0.7% higher than the figure for Bogotá, which was 8.36%. • The number of employed people in Bogota increased by 159 thousand between July 2021 and the same month of 2022, from 3.58 million to 3.74 million.