# Enterprise births in Finland

Enterprise births in Finland was 58,653 in 2024. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

- Indicator id: `enterprise_births`
- Place id: `fi`
- Unit: count
- Definition: New enterprises created during the year from scratch. Enterprises formed by a merger, break-up or change of legal form, and enterprises reactivated within two years, are not births.
- Note: Counts enterprises, which can run several local units, under the harmonised Eurostat and OECD business demography rules. Not the same as active_companies (the INE business register count for Spain) or employer_firms (US firms with employees). Not comparable with companies_created (companies registered in Spain) or business_applications (US applications for an employer number).
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (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, enterprise births, number (bd_size). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/enterprise-births/finland
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=enterprise_births&place=fi

| Period | count |
|---|---:|
| 2024 | 58,653 |
| 2023 | 40,835 |
| 2022 | 39,567 |
| 2021 | 40,327 (break) |
| 2020 | 38,319 |
| 2019 | 37,541 |
| 2018 | 34,940 |
| 2017 | 36,203 (break) |
| 2016 | 21,918 |
| 2015 | 19,968 |