# NUTS 3 areas of Estonia by enterprise birth rate, 2023

All 5 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `enterprise_birth_rate`
- 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.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size_r) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size_r). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-birth-rate/estonia-provinces

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Põhja-Eesti | 15.21 |
| 2 | Lõuna-Eesti | 13.08 |
| 3 | Lääne-Eesti | 12.98 |
| 4 | Kirde-Eesti | 12.08 |
| 5 | Kesk-Eesti | 11.58 |