# NUTS 3 areas of Ireland by enterprise births, 2023

All 8 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/ireland-provinces

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Dublin | 17,816 |
| 2 | Mid-East | 6,590 |
| 3 | South-West | 5,747 |
| 4 | West | 3,755 |
| 5 | Mid-West | 3,525 |
| 6 | Border | 3,186 |
| 7 | South-East | 3,157 |
| 8 | Midland | 2,206 |