# NUTS 3 areas of Estonia by enterprise births, 2023

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

- Indicator id: `enterprise_births`
- Unit: count
- Definition: New enterprises created during the year from scratch. Enterprises formed by a merger, break-up or change of legal form, and enterprises reactivated within two years, are not births.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (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, enterprise births, number (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-births/estonia-provinces

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Põhja-Eesti | 15,528 |
| 2 | Lõuna-Eesti | 3,989 |
| 3 | Lääne-Eesti | 1,998 |
| 4 | Kesk-Eesti | 1,186 |
| 5 | Kirde-Eesti | 843 |