# Enterprise deaths in Bulgaria

Enterprise deaths in Bulgaria was 62,241 in 2024 (provisional). Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

- Indicator id: `enterprise_deaths`
- Place id: `bg`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Enterprises that stopped trading during the year and were not reactivated within two years. Enterprises absorbed by a merger or a takeover are not deaths.
- 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). A death is not an insolvency: most enterprises that close do so without a formal insolvency procedure. The latest years are estimated from expected reactivations and are provisional.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, 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 deaths, 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-deaths/bulgaria
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=enterprise_deaths&place=bg

| Period | count |
|---|---:|
| 2024 | 62,241 (provisional) |
| 2023 | 32,125 (provisional) |
| 2022 | 32,846 |
| 2021 | 31,715 |
| 2020 | 43,619 |
| 2019 | 45,750 |