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

All 38 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/germany-regions

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Oberbayern | 21,274 |
| 2 | Berlin | 19,740 |
| 3 | Düsseldorf | 18,458 |
| 4 | Darmstadt | 16,934 |
| 5 | Köln | 16,084 |
| 6 | Stuttgart | 13,467 |
| 7 | Hamburg | 10,052 |
| 8 | Arnsberg | 9,869 |
| 9 | Karlsruhe | 9,714 |
| 10 | Schleswig-Holstein | 9,497 |
| 11 | Freiburg | 7,515 |
| 12 | Münster | 7,247 |
| 13 | Weser-Ems | 7,200 |
| 14 | Brandenburg | 6,549 |
| 15 | Hannover | 6,398 |
| 16 | Schwaben | 6,165 |
| 17 | Rheinhessen-Pfalz | 6,034 |
| 18 | Tübingen | 6,004 |
| 19 | Detmold | 5,678 |
| 20 | Mittelfranken | 5,544 |
| 21 | Lüneburg | 4,945 |
| 22 | Koblenz | 4,541 |
| 23 | Niederbayern | 3,923 |
| 24 | Sachsen-Anhalt | 3,801 |
| 25 | Braunschweig | 3,706 |
| 26 | Unterfranken | 3,682 |
| 27 | Thüringen | 3,672 |
| 28 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 3,458 |
| 29 | Dresden | 3,384 |
| 30 | Kassel | 3,242 |
| 31 | Oberpfalz | 3,138 |
| 32 | Gießen | 3,113 |
| 33 | Saarland | 2,998 |
| 34 | Leipzig | 2,997 |
| 35 | Chemnitz | 2,664 |
| 36 | Oberfranken | 2,624 |
| 37 | Bremen | 2,195 |
| 38 | Trier | 1,430 |