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

All 12 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/netherlands-regions

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Flevoland | 5.52 |
| 2 | Zuid-Holland | 5.11 |
| 3 | Noord-Holland | 5.08 |
| 4 | Limburg (NL) | 5.05 |
| 5 | Drenthe | 4.92 |
| 5 | Noord-Brabant | 4.92 |
| 7 | Overijssel | 4.88 |
| 8 | Groningen | 4.78 |
| 9 | Zeeland | 4.75 |
| 10 | Utrecht | 4.74 |
| 11 | Gelderland | 4.69 |
| 12 | Friesland (NL) | 4.47 |