# Provinces of Spain by enterprise births, 2023

All 49 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/spain-provinces

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Madrid province | 52,854 |
| 2 | Barcelona province | 46,485 |
| 3 | Valencia province | 20,100 |
| 4 | Málaga province | 17,619 |
| 5 | Alicante province | 16,355 |
| 6 | Seville province | 12,145 |
| 7 | Murcia province | 9,377 |
| 8 | Cádiz province | 6,848 |
| 9 | Girona province | 6,157 |
| 10 | Granada province | 6,100 |
| 11 | A Coruña province | 5,916 |
| 12 | Biscay province | 5,884 |
| 13 | Pontevedra province | 5,423 |
| 14 | Tarragona province | 5,197 |
| 15 | Asturias province | 5,127 |
| 16 | Zaragoza province | 4,897 |
| 17 | Almería province | 4,489 |
| 18 | Toledo province | 4,081 |
| 19 | Córdoba province | 4,012 |
| 20 | Gipuzkoa province | 3,819 |
| 21 | Castellón province | 3,604 |
| 22 | Badajoz province | 3,312 |
| 23 | Cantabria province | 3,014 |
| 24 | Jaén province | 3,010 |
| 25 | Navarre province | 2,987 |
| 26 | Lleida province | 2,573 |
| 27 | Huelva province | 2,553 |
| 28 | Valladolid province | 2,319 |
| 29 | Ciudad Real province | 2,265 |
| 30 | Albacete province | 2,043 |
| 31 | León province | 1,992 |
| 32 | Cáceres province | 1,983 |
| 33 | Burgos province | 1,653 |
| 34 | Ourense province | 1,629 |
| 35 | La Rioja province | 1,532 |
| 36 | Salamanca province | 1,490 |
| 37 | Lugo province | 1,480 |
| 38 | Guadalajara province | 1,415 |
| 39 | Álava province | 1,391 |
| 40 | Huesca province | 1,067 |
| 41 | Cuenca province | 955 |
| 42 | Segovia province | 752 |
| 43 | Ávila province | 729 |
| 44 | Zamora province | 688 |
| 45 | Teruel province | 666 |
| 46 | Palencia province | 568 |
| 47 | Melilla province | 495 |
| 48 | Soria province | 389 |
| 49 | Ceuta province | 287 |