# Provinces of Spain by enterprise death rate, 2023

All 49 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/spain-provinces

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Melilla province | 10.06 |
| 2 | Ceuta province | 9.69 |
| 3 | Huelva province | 8.83 |
| 4 | Málaga province | 8.71 |
| 5 | Cádiz province | 8.62 |
| 6 | Granada province | 8.48 |
| 7 | Alicante province | 8.4 |
| 8 | Guadalajara province | 8.39 |
| 9 | Valencia province | 8.31 |
| 10 | Almería province | 8.14 |
| 11 | Tarragona province | 8.1 |
| 12 | Murcia province | 8.04 |
| 13 | Seville province | 7.99 |
| 14 | Barcelona province | 7.97 |
| 15 | Jaén province | 7.93 |
| 15 | Toledo province | 7.93 |
| 17 | Navarre province | 7.82 |
| 18 | Madrid province | 7.73 |
| 19 | Cáceres province | 7.69 |
| 20 | Girona province | 7.62 |
| 21 | Ciudad Real province | 7.59 |
| 22 | Córdoba province | 7.46 |
| 23 | Asturias province | 7.31 |
| 24 | Albacete province | 7.3 |
| 25 | Biscay province | 7.2 |
| 25 | Pontevedra province | 7.2 |
| 27 | Gipuzkoa province | 7.17 |
| 28 | Badajoz province | 7.14 |
| 29 | Zaragoza province | 7.13 |
| 30 | Ávila province | 7.12 |
| 30 | Castellón province | 7.12 |
| 32 | Álava province | 7.06 |
| 33 | Ourense province | 7.04 |
| 34 | Teruel province | 6.95 |
| 35 | León province | 6.85 |
| 36 | A Coruña province | 6.84 |
| 37 | Segovia province | 6.82 |
| 38 | Salamanca province | 6.8 |
| 39 | La Rioja province | 6.75 |
| 40 | Cantabria province | 6.7 |
| 41 | Cuenca province | 6.69 |
| 41 | Lleida province | 6.69 |
| 43 | Burgos province | 6.67 |
| 44 | Valladolid province | 6.65 |
| 45 | Huesca province | 6.58 |
| 46 | Lugo province | 6.36 |
| 47 | Palencia province | 6.24 |
| 48 | Zamora province | 6.14 |
| 49 | Soria province | 6.01 |