# NUTS 3 areas of Bulgaria by enterprise death rate, 2023

All 28 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `enterprise_death_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Enterprise deaths in the year as a percentage of the enterprises active in the same year. A death is an enterprise that stopped trading and was not reactivated within two years.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (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, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (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-death-rate/bulgaria-provinces

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sofia (stolitsa) | 19.6 |
| 2 | Varna | 18.47 |
| 3 | Burgas | 17.9 |
| 4 | Dobrich | 16.16 |
| 5 | Shumen | 15.76 |
| 6 | Blagoevgrad | 15.2 |
| 7 | Yambol | 15.07 |
| 8 | Sliven | 14.71 |
| 9 | Plovdiv | 14.64 |
| 10 | Haskovo | 14.6 |
| 11 | Montana | 14.55 |
| 12 | Ruse | 14.35 |
| 13 | Pleven | 14.27 |
| 13 | Vidin | 14.27 |
| 15 | Stara Zagora | 14.25 |
| 16 | Razgrad | 14.17 |
| 17 | Pazardzhik | 13.79 |
| 18 | Vratsa | 13.54 |
| 19 | Pernik | 13.48 |
| 20 | Lovech | 13.47 |
| 21 | Sofia | 13.45 |
| 22 | Gabrovo | 13.38 |
| 23 | Kyustendil | 13.3 |
| 24 | Smolyan | 13.01 |
| 25 | Veliko Tarnovo | 13 |
| 26 | Silistra | 12.81 |
| 27 | Kardzhali | 12.74 |
| 28 | Targovishte | 12 |