EU regions (NUTS 2) by enterprise birth rate, 2023
Mayotte had the highest enterprise birth rate of 233 regions in 2023, at 53.87%. Thüringen had the lowest, at 5.3%. The median was 9.09% and the figure for the European Union (27) was 10.5%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
Top 40 regions, 2023
Full ranking
| Rank | Regions | 2023 (%) | Change on 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mayotte | 53.87 | +35.04 pts |
| 2 | Península de Setúbal | 20.7 | +0.25 pts |
| 3 | Guyane | 19.87 | +0.45 pts |
| 4 | Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas | 19.74 | +1.59 pts |
| 5 | Sostinės regionas | 19.47 | +1.02 pts |
| 6 | Algarve | 18.69 | +0.37 pts |
| 7 | Grande Lisboa | 18.61 | -0.2 pts |
| 8 | Guadeloupe | 18.23 | +0.76 pts |
| 9 | Martinique | 17.65 | -1.41 pts |
| 10 | Região Autónoma da Madeira | 17.23 | -0.38 pts |
| 11 | Malta | 17.13 | +2.82 pts |
| 12 | La Réunion | 16 | +0.03 pts |
| 13 | Ile-de-France | 15.92 | -0.26 pts |
| 14 | Norte | 15.83 | -0.01 pts |
| 15 | Região Autónoma dos Açores | 15.78 | -0.05 pts |
| 16 | Oeste e Vale do Tejo | 15.52 | +0.49 pts |
| 17 | Bucureşti-Ilfov | 15.4 | +0.7 pts |
| 18 | Alentejo | 14.61 | +0.11 pts |
| 19 | Centro (PT) | 14.42 | +0.27 pts |
| 20 | Nord-Pas de Calais | 14.38 | -0.28 pts |
| 21 | Eesti | 14.26 | -2.37 pts |
| 22 | Haute-Normandie | 13.99 | +0.28 pts |
| 23 | Lorraine | 13.92 | +0.34 pts |
| 24 | Picardie | 13.84 | -0.1 pts |
| 25 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | 13.76 | -0.43 pts |
| 26 | Languedoc-Roussillon | 13.5 | -0.32 pts |
| 27 | Rhône-Alpes | 13.35 | -0.59 pts |
| 28 | Aquitaine | 13.33 | -0.52 pts |
| 29 | Pays de la Loire | 13.24 | -0.39 pts |
| 29 | Warszawski stołeczny | 13.24 | -0.44 pts |
| 31 | Centre - Val de Loire | 13.23 | -0.17 pts |
| 32 | Panonska Hrvatska | 13.21 | +1.48 pts |
| 33 | Midi-Pyrénées | 13.11 | -0.26 pts |
| 34 | Champagne-Ardenne | 13.08 | +0.14 pts |
| 35 | Alsace | 13.04 | -0.19 pts |
| 36 | Bourgogne | 13 | +0.33 pts |
| 37 | Latvija | 12.89 | -1.41 pts |
| 38 | Franche-Comté | 12.85 | -0.06 pts |
| 39 | Jadranska Hrvatska | 12.8 | +1.18 pts |
| 40 | Eastern and Midland | 12.7 | -0.41 pts |
| 41 | Bretagne | 12.64 | -0.3 pts |
| 42 | Pomorskie | 12.62 | -0.47 pts |
| 43 | Východné Slovensko | 12.6 | -0.23 pts |
| 44 | Poitou-Charentes | 12.5 | -0.27 pts |
| 45 | Basse-Normandie | 12.46 | +0.04 pts |
| 46 | Grad Zagreb | 12.18 | +0.59 pts |
| 47 | Limousin | 12.12 | +0.67 pts |
| 48 | Auvergne | 12.08 | -0.01 pts |
| 48 | Dolnośląskie | 12.08 | -1.37 pts |
| 50 | Corse | 12.04 | -0.09 pts |
| 51 | Bratislavský kraj | 11.98 | +0.09 pts |
| 52 | Nord-Vest | 11.86 | +0.02 pts |
| 53 | Centru | 11.77 | +0.59 pts |
| 54 | Małopolskie | 11.75 | -0.82 pts |
| 55 | Sjeverna Hrvatska | 11.67 | +0.67 pts |
| 56 | Sud-Vest Oltenia | 11.64 | +0.88 pts |
| 57 | Vest | 11.63 | -0.42 pts |
| 58 | Západné Slovensko | 11.61 | -0.42 pts |
| 59 | Berlin | 11.55 | +0.39 pts |
| 60 | Lubuskie | 11.51 | -0.29 pts |
| 61 | Nord-Est | 11.42 | -0.32 pts |
| 62 | Podkarpackie | 11.4 | -1.39 pts |
| 62 | Zachodniopomorskie | 11.4 | -0.37 pts |
| 64 | Podlaskie | 11.32 | -1 pts |
| 64 | Sud-Est | 11.32 | +0.57 pts |
| 66 | Lubelskie | 11.27 | -2.09 pts |
| 67 | Sud-Muntenia | 11.23 | +0.33 pts |
| 68 | Severoiztochen | 11.11 | +0.83 pts |
| 69 | Yugoiztochen | 11.05 | +0.52 pts |
| 70 | Flevoland | 11.03 | +0.22 pts |
| 70 | Kujawsko-pomorskie | 11.03 | -0.44 pts |
| 72 | Hamburg | 10.93 | +1.79 pts |
| 73 | Yugozapaden | 10.87 | +0.41 pts |
| 74 | Balearic Islands | 10.82 | +0.03 pts |
| 75 | Warmińsko-mazurskie | 10.79 | -0.76 pts |
| 76 | Stredné Slovensko | 10.76 | -0.67 pts |
| 77 | Mazowiecki regionalny | 10.65 | -0.34 pts |
| 78 | Northern and Western | 10.64 | +0.2 pts |
| 79 | Zahodna Slovenija Series break | 10.61 | -0.87 pts |
| 80 | Zuid-Holland | 10.6 | -0.05 pts |
| 81 | Świętokrzyskie | 10.52 | -1.55 pts |
| 82 | Wielkopolskie | 10.5 | -0.43 pts |
| 83 | Southern | 10.48 | -0.09 pts |
| 84 | Melilla | 10.42 | +0.21 pts |
| 85 | Łódzkie | 10.39 | -1.03 pts |
| 86 | Opolskie | 10.37 | -0.49 pts |
| 87 | Severen tsentralen | 10.36 | +1.37 pts |
| 88 | Praha | 10.26 | +0.33 pts |
| 88 | Śląskie | 10.26 | -0.82 pts |
| 90 | Vzhodna Slovenija Series break | 10.24 | -0.57 pts |
| 90 | Yuzhen tsentralen | 10.24 | +1.13 pts |
| 92 | Valencian Community | 10.22 | +0.74 pts |
| 93 | Severozapaden | 10.2 | +0.84 pts |
| 94 | Canary Islands | 10.01 | -0.77 pts |
| 95 | Helsinki-Uusimaa | 9.89 | +0.03 pts |
| 96 | Andalusia | 9.88 | +0.43 pts |
| 97 | Noord-Holland | 9.8 | -0.08 pts |
| 98 | Darmstadt | 9.77 | +0.33 pts |
| 99 | Pest | 9.76 | -0.29 pts |
| 100 | Severozápad | 9.75 | +0.56 pts |
| 101 | Kýpros | 9.67 | -0.16 pts |
| 102 | Budapest | 9.66 | +0.22 pts |
| 103 | Észak-Alföld | 9.63 | +0.4 pts |
| 104 | Bremen | 9.6 | +0.36 pts |
| 104 | Észak-Magyarország | 9.6 | +0.05 pts |
| 106 | Community of Madrid | 9.55 | +0.53 pts |
| 107 | Moravskoslezsko | 9.47 | 0 pts |
| 108 | Attiki | 9.44 | -1.84 pts |
| 109 | Region of Murcia | 9.39 | +0.72 pts |
| 110 | Campania | 9.36 | -0.13 pts |
| 111 | Catalonia | 9.31 | +0.69 pts |
| 112 | Közép-Dunántúl | 9.28 | -0.15 pts |
| 113 | Groningen | 9.25 | +0.53 pts |
| 114 | Lazio | 9.24 | -0.51 pts |
| 114 | Utrecht | 9.24 | -0.05 pts |
| 116 | Dél-Dunántúl | 9.12 | -0.3 pts |
| 117 | Düsseldorf | 9.09 | +0.13 pts |
| 118 | Dél-Alföld | 8.97 | -0.13 pts |
| 119 | Calabria | 8.95 | -0.26 pts |
| 119 | Luxembourg Series break | 8.95 | -1.59 pts |
| 121 | Overijssel | 8.94 | +0.49 pts |
| 122 | Karlsruhe | 8.91 | +1.17 pts |
| 123 | Köln | 8.86 | +0.14 pts |
| 124 | Nyugat-Dunántúl | 8.83 | +0.15 pts |
| 125 | Střední Čechy | 8.81 | -0.25 pts |
| 126 | Noord-Brabant | 8.76 | +0.19 pts |
| 127 | Hannover | 8.74 | +0.32 pts |
| 128 | Oberbayern | 8.73 | +0.46 pts |
| 129 | Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi | 8.69 | +0.14 pts |
| 130 | Saarland | 8.63 | -0.13 pts |
| 131 | Notio Aigaio | 8.6 | -1.4 pts |
| 131 | Sicilia | 8.6 | -0.36 pts |
| 131 | Stuttgart | 8.6 | +1.08 pts |
| 131 | Sydsverige | 8.6 | -0.95 pts |
| 135 | Gelderland | 8.59 | +0.2 pts |
| 136 | Länsi-Suomi | 8.57 | +0.23 pts |
| 137 | Kentriki Makedonia | 8.56 | -1.32 pts |
| 138 | Stockholm | 8.54 | -0.96 pts |
| 139 | Jihovýchod | 8.53 | -0.34 pts |
| 140 | Braunschweig | 8.51 | +0.46 pts |
| 141 | Limburg (NL) | 8.45 | +0.28 pts |
| 142 | Rheinhessen-Pfalz | 8.42 | +0.03 pts |
| 143 | Jihozápad | 8.41 | -0.01 pts |
| 144 | Freiburg | 8.39 | +1.09 pts |
| 144 | Lüneburg | 8.39 | +0.54 pts |
| 144 | Schleswig-Holstein | 8.39 | +1.02 pts |
| 147 | Östra Mellansverige | 8.38 | -0.81 pts |
| 148 | Arnsberg | 8.35 | +0.22 pts |
| 148 | Gießen | 8.35 | +0.23 pts |
| 150 | Zeeland | 8.3 | +0.27 pts |
| 151 | Hovedstaden | 8.27 | -0.1 pts |
| 152 | Severovýchod | 8.22 | +0.07 pts |
| 153 | Münster | 8.15 | +0.17 pts |
| 154 | Castilla-La Mancha | 8.13 | +0.47 pts |
| 154 | Ionia Nisia | 8.13 | -1.43 pts |
| 154 | Tübingen | 8.13 | +1.01 pts |
| 157 | Střední Morava | 8.12 | -0.04 pts |
| 158 | Etelä-Suomi | 8.09 | +0.03 pts |
| 158 | Weser-Ems | 8.09 | +0.05 pts |
| 160 | Ceuta | 8.08 | -0.93 pts |
| 160 | Västsverige | 8.08 | -0.92 pts |
| 162 | Koblenz | 8.03 | +0.14 pts |
| 163 | Kassel | 8.01 | +0.37 pts |
| 164 | Mittelfranken | 7.96 | +0.54 pts |
| 165 | Friesland (NL) | 7.89 | +0.19 pts |
| 166 | Kriti | 7.87 | -0.45 pts |
| 167 | Sardegna | 7.83 | -0.25 pts |
| 168 | Dytiki Elláda | 7.81 | -0.85 pts |
| 169 | Extremadura | 7.8 | +0.12 pts |
| 169 | Leipzig | 7.8 | +0.1 pts |
| 171 | Molise | 7.77 | +0.18 pts |
| 172 | Lombardia | 7.76 | -0.02 pts |
| 173 | Trier | 7.73 | +0.11 pts |
| 174 | Småland med öarna | 7.72 | -0.75 pts |
| 175 | Detmold | 7.69 | +0.11 pts |
| 175 | Puglia | 7.69 | -0.1 pts |
| 175 | Schwaben | 7.69 | +0.33 pts |
| 178 | Basque Country | 7.66 | +0.39 pts |
| 179 | Övre Norrland | 7.64 | -1.07 pts |
| 180 | Drenthe | 7.63 | +0.17 pts |
| 181 | Abruzzo | 7.56 | -0.31 pts |
| 182 | Basilicata | 7.5 | +0.17 pts |
| 183 | Cantabria | 7.46 | +0.35 pts |
| 184 | Aragon | 7.45 | +0.58 pts |
| 185 | Ipeiros | 7.44 | -1 pts |
| 186 | Asturias | 7.43 | +0.59 pts |
| 187 | Dytiki Makedonia | 7.42 | -1.51 pts |
| 188 | Åland | 7.37 | +0.49 pts |
| 189 | Galicia | 7.33 | +0.21 pts |
| 189 | Thessalia | 7.33 | -1.4 pts |
| 191 | Piemonte | 7.3 | -0.06 pts |
| 192 | Brandenburg | 7.29 | +0.37 pts |
| 193 | Norra Mellansverige | 7.28 | -0.76 pts |
| 194 | Niederbayern | 7.27 | +0.54 pts |
| 194 | Oberpfalz | 7.27 | +0.33 pts |
| 196 | Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste | 7.26 | +0.84 pts |
| 197 | Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki | 7.25 | -0.87 pts |
| 197 | Unterfranken | 7.25 | +0.25 pts |
| 199 | Liguria | 7.24 | -0.12 pts |
| 200 | Mellersta Norrland | 7.19 | -0.84 pts |
| 200 | Sjælland | 7.19 | +0.04 pts |
| 202 | Umbria | 7.12 | -0.07 pts |
| 203 | Sterea Elláda | 7.06 | -0.73 pts |
| 204 | Toscana | 7.05 | -0.34 pts |
| 205 | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 7.02 | +0.11 pts |
| 206 | Emilia-Romagna | 7 | +0.13 pts |
| 207 | Provincia Autonoma di Trento | 6.99 | +0.37 pts |
| 208 | Castile and León | 6.84 | +0.43 pts |
| 209 | Navarre | 6.82 | +0.2 pts |
| 210 | La Rioja | 6.81 | +1 pts |
| 211 | Oberfranken | 6.78 | +0.46 pts |
| 212 | Peloponnisos | 6.77 | -1.45 pts |
| 213 | Veneto | 6.7 | +0.05 pts |
| 214 | Wien | 6.68 | -0.01 pts |
| 215 | Nordjylland | 6.61 | -0.24 pts |
| 216 | Syddanmark | 6.59 | -0.08 pts |
| 217 | Steiermark | 6.51 | +0.01 pts |
| 218 | Midtjylland | 6.48 | -0.42 pts |
| 219 | Voreio Aigaio | 6.47 | -0.56 pts |
| 220 | Marche | 6.43 | +0.02 pts |
| 221 | Burgenland | 6.39 | +0.11 pts |
| 222 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 6.35 | +0.13 pts |
| 223 | Kärnten | 6.34 | +0.22 pts |
| 224 | Oberösterreich | 6.28 | +0.05 pts |
| 225 | Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen | 6.21 | +0.01 pts |
| 226 | Dresden | 6.1 | -0.17 pts |
| 227 | Niederösterreich | 6.09 | +0.12 pts |
| 228 | Sachsen-Anhalt | 6.03 | 0 pts |
| 229 | Tirol | 5.68 | 0 pts |
| 230 | Salzburg | 5.66 | -0.03 pts |
| 231 | Chemnitz | 5.34 | +0.29 pts |
| 231 | Vorarlberg | 5.34 | -0.52 pts |
| 233 | Thüringen | 5.3 | +0.46 pts |
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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.
Eurostat and OECD harmonised business demography. Not comparable with establishment_entry_rate, which counts new locations of US businesses, including branches of existing firms.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the regions are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.
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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.Citation styles
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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, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size_r) (EU regions (NUTS 2) by enterprise birth rate, 2023) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table
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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), EU regions (NUTS 2) by enterprise birth rate, 2023. Eurostat, European Commission, 13 Mar. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-birth-rate/eu-regions. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
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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, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size_r), EU regions (NUTS 2) by enterprise birth rate, 2023 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-birth-rate/eu-regions (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
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Which region has the highest enterprise birth rate?
Mayotte, with 53.87% in 2023, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
Which region has the lowest enterprise birth rate?
Thüringen, with 5.3% 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, birth rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size_r). Retrieved 2026-10-12.
Enterprise birth rate: other rankings
- Regions of Austria (NUTS 2)
- Regions of Italy (NUTS 2)
- Regions of Germany (NUTS 2)
- NUTS 3 areas of Czechia
- NUTS 3 areas of Germany
- NUTS 3 areas of Sweden