# Autonomous communities of Spain by enterprise death rate, 2023

All 19 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-regions

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Melilla | 10.06 |
| 2 | Ceuta | 9.69 |
| 3 | Canary Islands | 8.53 |
| 4 | Andalusia | 8.31 |
| 5 | Balearic Islands | 8.3 |
| 6 | Valencian Community | 8.21 |
| 7 | Region of Murcia | 8.04 |
| 8 | Catalonia | 7.88 |
| 9 | Navarre | 7.82 |
| 10 | Community of Madrid | 7.73 |
| 11 | Castilla-La Mancha | 7.65 |
| 12 | Extremadura | 7.35 |
| 13 | Asturias | 7.31 |
| 14 | Basque Country | 7.17 |
| 15 | Aragon | 7.01 |
| 16 | Galicia | 6.93 |
| 17 | La Rioja | 6.75 |
| 18 | Cantabria | 6.7 |
| 19 | Castile and León | 6.67 |