As of June 2020, there were 2.42 million active businesses in Australia, up by 46,651 (2.0%) from one year earlier. In June 2020, 1.5 million businesses had no employees, up 55,933 (3.8%) from one year earlier, and 884,821 businesses had at least 1 employee, down 9,282 (1.0%) from one year earlier*