# Regions of France (NUTS 2) by enterprise births, 2023

All 27 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/france-regions

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ile-de-France | 188,959 |
| 2 | Rhône-Alpes | 78,013 |
| 3 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | 73,944 |
| 4 | Aquitaine | 42,827 |
| 5 | Languedoc-Roussillon | 35,744 |
| 6 | Midi-Pyrénées | 34,135 |
| 7 | Pays de la Loire | 33,757 |
| 8 | Nord-Pas de Calais | 31,736 |
| 9 | Bretagne | 29,654 |
| 10 | Centre - Val de Loire | 20,776 |
| 11 | Lorraine | 17,942 |
| 12 | Alsace | 17,482 |
| 13 | Poitou-Charentes | 16,111 |
| 14 | Haute-Normandie | 14,340 |
| 15 | Bourgogne | 13,911 |
| 16 | Picardie | 13,897 |
| 17 | Basse-Normandie | 11,652 |
| 18 | Auvergne | 11,206 |
| 19 | Champagne-Ardenne | 10,036 |
| 20 | La Réunion | 9,731 |
| 21 | Franche-Comté | 9,075 |
| 22 | Martinique | 7,591 |
| 23 | Guadeloupe | 6,154 |
| 24 | Limousin | 5,861 |
| 25 | Corse | 4,792 |
| 26 | Guyane | 2,203 |
| 27 | Mayotte | 1,922 |