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

All 38 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/germany-regions

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Berlin | 11.75 |
| 2 | Hamburg | 10.24 |
| 3 | Bremen | 9.84 |
| 4 | Darmstadt | 9.76 |
| 5 | Saarland | 9.5 |
| 6 | Düsseldorf | 9.25 |
| 7 | Hannover | 9.19 |
| 8 | Karlsruhe | 9.11 |
| 9 | Rheinhessen-Pfalz | 9.09 |
| 10 | Stuttgart | 9.08 |
| 11 | Köln | 9.03 |
| 12 | Brandenburg | 8.98 |
| 13 | Braunschweig | 8.97 |
| 13 | Leipzig | 8.97 |
| 15 | Gießen | 8.96 |
| 16 | Oberbayern | 8.93 |
| 16 | Schleswig-Holstein | 8.93 |
| 18 | Lüneburg | 8.82 |
| 19 | Arnsberg | 8.53 |
| 20 | Kassel | 8.49 |
| 21 | Mittelfranken | 8.42 |
| 22 | Freiburg | 8.37 |
| 23 | Koblenz | 8.36 |
| 24 | Münster | 8.31 |
| 25 | Tübingen | 8.26 |
| 26 | Weser-Ems | 8.18 |
| 27 | Detmold | 8.15 |
| 28 | Schwaben | 8.14 |
| 29 | Trier | 7.94 |
| 30 | Unterfranken | 7.85 |
| 31 | Dresden | 7.84 |
| 32 | Sachsen-Anhalt | 7.79 |
| 33 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 7.78 |
| 34 | Niederbayern | 7.62 |
| 35 | Oberfranken | 7.57 |
| 36 | Thüringen | 7.4 |
| 37 | Oberpfalz | 7.3 |
| 38 | Chemnitz | 7.14 |