# NUTS 3 areas of Bulgaria by enterprise deaths, 2023

All 28 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `enterprise_deaths`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Enterprises that stopped trading during the year and were not reactivated within two years. Enterprises absorbed by a merger or a takeover are not deaths.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (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, enterprise deaths, number (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-deaths/bulgaria-provinces

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sofia (stolitsa) | 24,345 |
| 2 | Varna | 5,900 |
| 3 | Plovdiv | 5,894 |
| 4 | Burgas | 5,187 |
| 5 | Blagoevgrad | 3,109 |
| 6 | Stara Zagora | 2,119 |
| 7 | Haskovo | 1,610 |
| 8 | Ruse | 1,582 |
| 9 | Pazardzhik | 1,383 |
| 10 | Pleven | 1,340 |
| 11 | Sofia | 1,313 |
| 12 | Veliko Tarnovo | 1,304 |
| 13 | Dobrich | 1,206 |
| 14 | Shumen | 1,012 |
| 15 | Sliven | 1,002 |
| 16 | Kyustendil | 806 |
| 17 | Gabrovo | 787 |
| 18 | Vratsa | 763 |
| 19 | Pernik | 736 |
| 20 | Yambol | 735 |
| 21 | Lovech | 697 |
| 22 | Kardzhali | 670 |
| 23 | Smolyan | 666 |
| 24 | Montana | 616 |
| 25 | Razgrad | 565 |
| 26 | Targovishte | 451 |
| 27 | Silistra | 446 |
| 28 | Vidin | 380 |