Autonomous communities of Spain by active enterprises, 2023

Catalonia had the highest active enterprises of 19 autonomous communities in 2023, at 648,982. Ceuta had the lowest, at 3,550. The median was 109,660 and the figure for Spain was 3.5 million. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest648,982Catalonia

Lowest3,550Ceuta

Median109,66019 autonomous communities

Spain3,503,285History

All autonomous communities, 2023

count. Source: Eurostat, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Autonomous communities	2023 count	Change on 2022
1	Catalonia	648,982	+0.7%
2	Andalusia	574,769	+0.6%
3	Community of Madrid	553,293	+0.8%
4	Valencian Community	391,856	+0.9%
5	Galicia	197,228	-0.8%
6	Canary Islands	154,861	+1.5%
7	Castile and León	154,740	-1%
8	Basque Country	144,812	+0.8%
9	Castilla-La Mancha	132,398	-0.6%
10	Balearic Islands	109,660	+1.8%
11	Region of Murcia	99,842	-0.1%
12	Aragon	88,965	-0%
13	Asturias	68,999	-1.2%
14	Extremadura	67,910	-0.5%
15	Navarre	43,783	+0.4%
16	Cantabria	40,384	0%
17	La Rioja	22,502	-1%
18	Melilla	4,751	-2.2%
19	Ceuta	3,550	-3%

Other periods

2023
2022
2021

About this ranking

Enterprises that had turnover or employment at any time during the year, with or without employees.

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). For the UK it counts every enterprise active at some point in the year, so it differs from registered_enterprises_total (UK Business Counts), a snapshot of the register in March.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the autonomous communities are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r) (Autonomous communities of Spain by active enterprises, 2023) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table

MLA 9

Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r), Autonomous communities of Spain by active enterprises, 2023. Eurostat, European Commission, 13 Mar. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/spain-regions. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). Autonomous communities of Spain by active enterprises, 2023. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/spain-regions.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r), Autonomous communities of Spain by active enterprises, 2023 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/spain-regions (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{eurostat_autonomous_communities_of_spain_2023,
  author = {{Eurostat, European Commission}},
  title = {{Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd\_size\_r): Autonomous communities of Spain by active enterprises, 2023}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/spain-regions. Publisher attribution: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd\_size\_r). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd\_size\_r/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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Which autonomous community has the highest active enterprises?

Catalonia, with 648,982 in 2023, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which autonomous community has the lowest active enterprises?

Ceuta, with 3,550 in 2023.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). Retrieved 2026-10-12.