# EU countries by enterprise births, 2024

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, 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 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)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-births/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 799,108 |
| 2 | Italy | 368,276 |
| 3 | Spain | 334,789 |
| 4 | Poland | 317,162 |
| 5 | Germany | 252,090 |
| 6 | Portugal | 236,498 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 197,710 |
| 8 | Czechia | 130,621 |
| 9 | Romania | 119,531 |
| 10 | Greece | 88,028 |
| 11 | Sweden | 78,869 |
| 12 | Hungary | 77,744 |
| 13 | Belgium | 74,529 |
| 14 | Slovakia | 74,434 |
| 15 | Lithuania | 64,848 |
| 16 | Finland | 58,653 |
| 17 | Ireland | 44,418 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 43,315 |
| 19 | Austria | 39,554 |
| 20 | Croatia | 29,900 |
| 21 | Denmark | 27,175 |
| 22 | Latvia | 21,259 |
| 23 | Slovenia | 20,745 |
| 24 | Estonia | 20,302 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 9,152 |
| 26 | Malta | 8,564 |
| 27 | Luxembourg | 4,208 |