# EU countries by enterprise deaths, 2024

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, 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 NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (bd_size) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NACE Rev. 2 activity, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (bd_size). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-deaths/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 615,080 |
| 2 | Poland | 343,959 |
| 3 | Germany | 331,590 |
| 4 | Italy | 297,820 |
| 5 | Spain | 269,592 |
| 6 | Portugal | 173,993 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 158,036 |
| 8 | Hungary | 116,227 |
| 9 | Slovakia | 98,762 |
| 10 | Czechia | 90,323 |
| 11 | Romania | 80,639 |
| 12 | Ireland | 69,154 |
| 13 | Sweden | 67,289 |
| 14 | Bulgaria | 62,241 |
| 15 | Lithuania | 57,797 |
| 16 | Belgium | 52,848 |
| 17 | Estonia | 49,260 |
| 18 | Finland | 44,228 |
| 19 | Denmark | 38,198 |
| 20 | Greece | 37,391 |
| 21 | Austria | 33,330 |
| 22 | Croatia | 17,772 |
| 23 | Slovenia | 14,952 |
| 24 | Latvia | 10,958 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 5,566 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 4,153 |
| 27 | Malta | 2,624 |