# EU countries by enterprise death rate, 2024

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, 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 NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, death rate, percentage of active enterprises (bd_size). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-death-rate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Estonia | 29.23 |
| 2 | Ireland | 16.86 |
| 3 | Lithuania | 15.57 |
| 4 | Bulgaria | 14.99 |
| 5 | Slovakia | 14.48 |
| 6 | Hungary | 12.84 |
| 7 | Poland | 12.19 |
| 8 | Portugal | 11.83 |
| 9 | France | 10.95 |
| 10 | Germany | 10.23 |
| 11 | Denmark | 10.07 |
| 12 | Finland | 9.24 |
| 13 | Luxembourg | 8.35 |
| 14 | Romania | 7.82 |
| 15 | Sweden | 7.7 |
| 16 | Spain | 7.59 |
| 17 | Slovenia | 7.19 |
| 18 | Latvia | 7.18 |
| 19 | Croatia | 7.05 |
| 20 | Czechia | 6.61 |
| 21 | Netherlands | 6.52 |
| 22 | Italy | 6.42 |
| 23 | Cyprus | 5.9 |
| 24 | Belgium | 5.67 |
| 25 | Austria | 5.31 |
| 26 | Malta | 4.41 |
| 27 | Greece | 3.88 |