# Provinces of Spain by enterprise birth rate, 2023

All 49 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/spain-provinces

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Málaga province | 11.73 |
| 2 | Alicante province | 10.67 |
| 3 | Melilla province | 10.42 |
| 4 | Valencia province | 10.24 |
| 5 | Cádiz province | 9.91 |
| 6 | Guadalajara province | 9.71 |
| 7 | Almería province | 9.55 |
| 7 | Madrid province | 9.55 |
| 9 | Barcelona province | 9.49 |
| 10 | Murcia province | 9.39 |
| 11 | Granada province | 9.38 |
| 11 | Seville province | 9.38 |
| 13 | Huelva province | 9.23 |
| 14 | Girona province | 9.07 |
| 14 | Tarragona province | 9.07 |
| 16 | Toledo province | 8.62 |
| 17 | Castellón province | 8.53 |
| 18 | Jaén province | 8.27 |
| 19 | Ceuta province | 8.08 |
| 20 | Córdoba province | 8.04 |
| 21 | Badajoz province | 7.84 |
| 22 | Pontevedra province | 7.77 |
| 23 | Cáceres province | 7.73 |
| 24 | Albacete province | 7.7 |
| 24 | Biscay province | 7.7 |
| 26 | Gipuzkoa province | 7.69 |
| 26 | Zaragoza province | 7.69 |
| 28 | Lleida province | 7.58 |
| 29 | Cantabria province | 7.46 |
| 29 | Ciudad Real province | 7.46 |
| 31 | Asturias province | 7.43 |
| 32 | Álava province | 7.4 |
| 33 | Ourense province | 7.32 |
| 34 | Teruel province | 7.29 |
| 35 | A Coruña province | 7.26 |
| 36 | Burgos province | 7.19 |
| 37 | Ávila province | 7.09 |
| 38 | Valladolid province | 7.06 |
| 39 | Cuenca province | 7.03 |
| 40 | Salamanca province | 6.85 |
| 41 | Navarre province | 6.82 |
| 42 | La Rioja province | 6.81 |
| 42 | Segovia province | 6.81 |
| 44 | Soria province | 6.76 |
| 45 | León province | 6.7 |
| 46 | Huesca province | 6.61 |
| 47 | Zamora province | 6.28 |
| 48 | Lugo province | 6.25 |
| 49 | Palencia province | 6.08 |