EU countries by enterprise births, 2024

France had the highest enterprise births of 27 EU countries in 2024, at 799,108. Luxembourg had the lowest, at 4,208. The median was 74,434 and the figure for the European Union (27) was 3.54 million. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest799,108France

Lowest4,208Luxembourg

Median74,43427 EU countries

European Union (27)3,541,482History

All EU countries, 2024

count. Source: Eurostat, Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	EU countries	2024 count	Change on 2023
1	France	799,108	+5.1%
2	Italy	368,276	+2.5%
3	Spain	334,789	+4.9%
4	Poland	317,162	+0.8%
5	Germany Series break	252,090	-6.3%
6	Portugal	236,498	+0.1%
7	Netherlands	197,710	-8.8%
8	Czechia	130,621	+8.8%
9	Romania	119,531	-5.5%
10	Greece	88,028	+11.8%
11	Sweden	78,869	+5.4%
12	Hungary	77,744	-8.6%
13	Belgium	74,529	-0%
14	Slovakia	74,434	-4.6%
15	Lithuania	64,848	-7.7%
16	Finland	58,653	+43.6%
17	Ireland	44,418	-6.6%
18	Bulgaria	43,315	-0.1%
19	Austria	39,554	+5.3%
20	Croatia	29,900	-0.7%
21	Denmark	27,175	-2.3%
22	Latvia	21,259	+12.8%
23	Slovenia	20,745	-1.8%
24	Estonia	20,302	-13.8%
25	Cyprus	9,152	+4%
26	Malta	8,564	-11.4%
27	Luxembourg	4,208	-3.7%

Other periods

2024
2023
2022
2021

About this ranking

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.

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). Not comparable with companies_created (companies registered in Spain) or business_applications (US applications for an employer number).

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

How to cite

Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size) (EU countries by enterprise births, 2024) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table

MLA 9

Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size), EU countries by enterprise births, 2024. Eurostat, European Commission, 2 Oct. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-births/eu-countries. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size). EU countries by enterprise births, 2024. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-births/eu-countries.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size), EU countries by enterprise births, 2024 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-births/eu-countries (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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Which EU country has the highest enterprise births?

France, with 799,108 in 2024, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which EU country has the lowest enterprise births?

Luxembourg, with 4,208 in 2024.

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 NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise births, number (bd_size). Retrieved 2026-10-12.