Enterprise death rate in Ireland

Enterprise death rate in Ireland was 16.86% in 2024, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 6.02 pts from 2023. That is the 2nd highest of 27 EU countries in 2024.

202416.86% Provisional

Change on 2023+6.02 pts

Rank2nd of 27EU countries ranked

Series high16.862024

Series low7.792021

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Enterprise death rate in Ireland, 2021 to 2024

%. Source: Eurostat, Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size). Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-10-02.

All 4 values

Period	%
2024	16.86 Provisional
2023	10.84 Provisional
2022	8.65
2021	7.79

Compared with European Union (27)

Place	2024
Ireland	16.86
European Union (27)	9.2

Rankings

EU countries by enterprise death rate 27 places

Definition

Enterprise deaths in the year as a percentage of the enterprises active in the same year. A death is an enterprise that stopped trading and was not reactivated within two years.

Eurostat and OECD harmonised business demography. The latest year is provisional until the two-year reactivation window has passed. Not an insolvency rate, and not comparable with establishment_exit_rate, which counts closed US business locations.

How to cite

Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size) (Enterprise death rate, Ireland, 2021 to 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table

MLA 9

Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size), Enterprise death rate, Ireland, 2021 to 2024. Eurostat, European Commission, 2 Oct. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/enterprise-death-rate/ireland. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size). Enterprise death rate, Ireland, 2021 to 2024. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/enterprise-death-rate/ireland.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size), Enterprise death rate, Ireland, 2021 to 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/enterprise-death-rate/ireland (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{eurostat_enterprise_death_rate_ireland_2024,
  author = {{Eurostat, European Commission}},
  title = {{Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd\_size): Enterprise death rate, Ireland, 2021 to 2024}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/enterprise-death-rate/ireland. Publisher attribution: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd\_size). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd\_size/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

RIS

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What is the enterprise death rate in Ireland?

Enterprise death rate in Ireland was 16.86% in 2024, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 6.02 pts from 2023. That is the 2nd highest of 27 EU countries in 2024.

Where does this figure come from?

Eurostat, European Commission. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest enterprise death rate in Ireland?

16.86% in 2024, the highest value since 2021 in this series.

Enterprise death rate elsewhere in European Union (27)

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