# Enterprise birth rate in Portugal

Enterprise birth rate in Portugal was 16.08% in 2024. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

- Indicator id: `enterprise_birth_rate`
- Place id: `pt`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Enterprise births in the year as a percentage of the enterprises active in the same year. A birth is a new enterprise created from scratch, not by a merger, break-up or reactivation.
- Note: Eurostat and OECD harmonised business demography. Not comparable with establishment_entry_rate, which counts new locations of US businesses, including branches of existing firms.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- License: Eurostat reuse policy (commercial and non-commercial reuse, attribution required)
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/enterprise-birth-rate/portugal
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=enterprise_birth_rate&place=pt

| Period | % |
|---|---:|
| 2024 | 16.08 |
| 2023 | 16.82 |
| 2022 | 16.74 |
| 2021 | 14.38 (break) |