EU regions (NUTS 2) by enterprise deaths

Ile-de-France had the highest enterprise deaths of 216 regions in 2020, at 113,872. Åland had the lowest, at 206. The median was 6,584. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest113,872Ile-de-France

Lowest206Åland

Median6,584216 regions

Top 40 regions, 2020

count. Source: Eurostat, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (bd_size_r). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Regions	2020 count	Change on 2019
1	Ile-de-France Series break	113,872	n/a
2	Catalonia	55,897	n/a
3	Andalusia	50,357	n/a
4	Community of Madrid	48,764	n/a
5	Lombardia	45,529	-7.8%
6	Rhône-Alpes Series break	42,685	n/a
7	Norte	41,735	-9.3%
8	Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Series break	39,131	n/a
9	Grande Lisboa	36,779	n/a
10	Valencian Community	36,409	n/a
11	Lazio	33,810	-6.9%
12	Warszawski stołeczny	30,982	n/a
13	Noord-Holland	28,072	n/a
14	Praha Provisional	26,979	+37.8%
15	Campania	25,976	-11.8%
16	Vidurio ir vakarų Lietuvos regionas	25,597	-3.5%
17	Śląskie	22,538	n/a
18	Aquitaine Series break	22,465	n/a
19	Wielkopolskie	21,013	n/a
20	Małopolskie	20,439	n/a
21	Stockholm	20,403	n/a
22	Emilia-Romagna	19,800	-6.8%
23	Veneto	19,760	-10.2%
24	Yugozapaden	19,039	+6.2%
25	Sicilia	19,035	-4.9%
26	Toscana	18,801	-11.4%
27	Languedoc-Roussillon Series break	18,733	n/a
28	Midi-Pyrénées Series break	18,715	n/a
29	Piemonte	18,582	-7.4%
30	Noord-Brabant	18,225	n/a
31	Dolnośląskie	18,082	n/a
32	Centro (PT)	17,795	n/a
33	Latvija	17,456	n/a
34	Canary Islands	17,129	n/a
35	Oberbayern	17,025	n/a
36	Berlin	16,849	n/a
37	Galicia	16,559	n/a
38	Pays de la Loire Series break	16,407	n/a
39	Nord-Pas de Calais Series break	16,221	n/a
40	Eastern and Midland	16,131	+11.4%
41	Düsseldorf	16,010	n/a
42	Pomorskie	15,881	n/a
43	Puglia	15,623	-11.9%
44	Darmstadt	14,946	n/a
45	Západné Slovensko	14,415	-13.4%
46	Jihovýchod Provisional	14,311	+20.3%
47	Bretagne Series break	14,233	n/a
48	Gelderland	13,989	n/a
49	Bucureşti-Ilfov	13,986	n/a
50	Köln	13,968	n/a
51	Sostinės regionas	13,901	-2.3%
52	Basque Country	12,974	n/a
53	Helsinki-Uusimaa	12,955	+11.1%
54	Castile and León	12,529	n/a
55	Střední Čechy Provisional	12,524	+21.4%
56	Łódzkie	12,413	n/a
57	Hovedstaden	12,167	n/a
58	Stuttgart	12,100	n/a
59	Severovýchod Provisional	11,789	+16.7%
60	Eesti Series break	11,669	n/a
61	Västsverige	11,612	n/a
62	Budapest	11,550	-31%
63	Centre - Val de Loire Series break	11,480	n/a
64	Zachodniopomorskie	11,328	n/a
65	Balearic Islands	11,006	n/a
66	Península de Setúbal	10,838	n/a
67	Východné Slovensko	10,553	-14.9%
68	Castilla-La Mancha	10,437	n/a
69	Kujawsko-pomorskie	10,421	n/a
70	Mazowiecki regionalny	10,293	n/a
71	Stredné Slovensko	10,006	-16.9%
72	Lubelskie	9,979	n/a
73	Sydsverige	9,920	n/a
74	Region of Murcia	9,727	n/a
75	Alsace Series break	9,597	n/a
76	Jihozápad Provisional	9,575	+17.7%
77	Lorraine Series break	9,363	n/a
78	Nord-Vest	8,952	n/a
79	Střední Morava Provisional	8,939	+15.5%
80	Bratislavský kraj	8,806	-10.7%
81	Oeste e Vale do Tejo	8,801	n/a
82	Karlsruhe	8,691	n/a
83	Podkarpackie	8,689	n/a
84	Moravskoslezsko Provisional	8,641	+16.8%
85	Schleswig-Holstein	8,566	n/a
86	Arnsberg	8,384	n/a
87	Southern	8,267	+2.9%
88	Severozápad Provisional	8,226	+16.5%
89	Poitou-Charentes Series break	8,203	n/a
90	Hamburg	8,196	n/a
91	Calabria	8,010	-6.9%
92	Östra Mellansverige	7,906	n/a
93	Algarve	7,509	-21.8%
94	Bourgogne Series break	7,434	n/a
95	Länsi-Suomi	7,391	+10.9%
96	Haute-Normandie Series break	7,389	n/a
97	Aragon	7,375	n/a
98	Liguria	7,256	-10.3%
98	Picardie Series break	7,256	n/a
100	Centru	7,111	n/a
101	Yuzhen tsentralen	6,902	-10.5%
102	Overijssel	6,869	n/a
103	Brandenburg	6,864	n/a
104	Limburg (NL)	6,848	n/a
105	Warmińsko-mazurskie	6,845	n/a
106	Nord-Est	6,729	n/a
107	Wien	6,713	n/a
108	Marche	6,677	-6.6%
109	Freiburg	6,491	n/a
110	Sardegna	6,479	-9.9%
111	Sud-Muntenia	6,458	n/a
112	Abruzzo	6,346	-5.5%
113	Etelä-Suomi	6,344	+8.4%
114	Pest	6,329	-21.9%
115	Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi	6,223	+6.9%
116	Midtjylland	6,164	n/a
117	Basse-Normandie Series break	6,153	n/a
118	Münster	6,123	n/a
119	Sud-Est	6,025	n/a
120	Severoiztochen	5,962	-6.8%
121	Lubuskie	5,915	n/a
122	Weser-Ems	5,907	n/a
123	Vest	5,770	n/a
124	Auvergne Series break	5,744	n/a
125	Extremadura	5,621	n/a
126	Yugoiztochen	5,596	-21.9%
127	Jadranska Hrvatska	5,564	n/a
128	Niederösterreich	5,531	n/a
129	Świętokrzyskie	5,501	n/a
130	Asturias	5,482	n/a
131	Rheinhessen-Pfalz	5,458	n/a
132	Hannover	5,410	n/a
133	Podlaskie	5,324	n/a
134	Champagne-Ardenne Series break	5,256	n/a
135	Syddanmark	5,188	n/a
136	Tübingen	5,167	n/a
137	Norra Mellansverige	5,072	n/a
138	Észak-Alföld	5,047	-24.1%
139	Detmold	5,005	n/a
140	Malta	4,997	+7.1%
141	Franche-Comté Series break	4,859	n/a
142	Alentejo	4,845	n/a
143	Schwaben	4,807	n/a
144	Grad Zagreb	4,797	n/a
145	Thüringen	4,512	n/a
146	Közép-Dunántúl	4,477	-22.7%
147	Dél-Alföld	4,451	-24.8%
148	Mittelfranken	4,426	n/a
149	Sachsen-Anhalt	4,372	n/a
150	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	4,362	-5.3%
151	Opolskie	4,282	n/a
152	Northern and Western	4,280	+2.5%
153	Lüneburg	4,211	n/a
154	Sud-Vest Oltenia	4,160	n/a
155	Észak-Magyarország	4,118	-17.3%
156	Oberösterreich	4,111	n/a
157	Sjælland	4,108	n/a
158	Nyugat-Dunántúl	4,100	-20.3%
159	Koblenz	4,040	n/a
160	Kýpros	3,961	n/a
161	Friesland (NL)	3,892	n/a
162	Småland med öarna	3,849	n/a
163	Umbria	3,806	-6.9%
164	La Réunion Series break	3,763	n/a
165	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	3,727	n/a
166	Dresden	3,720	n/a
167	Steiermark	3,687	n/a
168	Dél-Dunántúl	3,558	-21.5%
169	Severen tsentralen	3,549	-1.9%
170	Groningen	3,484	n/a
171	Braunschweig	3,307	n/a
172	Flevoland	3,276	n/a
173	Chemnitz	3,204	n/a
174	Limousin Series break	3,112	n/a
174	Niederbayern	3,112	n/a
176	Navarre	3,091	n/a
177	Unterfranken	2,994	n/a
178	Região Autónoma da Madeira	2,983	-2.2%
179	Cantabria	2,930	n/a
180	Saarland	2,922	n/a
181	Drenthe	2,909	n/a
182	Guadeloupe Series break	2,890	n/a
183	Martinique Series break	2,850	n/a
184	Gießen	2,835	n/a
185	Kassel	2,817	n/a
186	Leipzig	2,776	n/a
187	Luxembourg	2,772	n/a
188	Severozapaden	2,571	-12.3%
189	Oberpfalz	2,534	n/a
190	Nordjylland	2,517	n/a
191	Tirol	2,488	n/a
192	Região Autónoma dos Açores	2,414	-15.3%
193	Corse Series break	2,348	n/a
194	Panonska Hrvatska	2,317	n/a
195	Zeeland	2,259	n/a
196	Övre Norrland	2,247	n/a
197	Oberfranken	2,222	n/a
198	Bremen	2,145	n/a
199	Sjeverna Hrvatska	2,053	n/a
200	Basilicata	2,033	-15.7%
201	Mellersta Norrland	1,972	n/a
202	Provincia Autonoma di Trento	1,913	-8.7%
203	Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen	1,883	-5.7%
204	Salzburg	1,873	n/a
205	Kärnten	1,746	n/a
206	La Rioja	1,665	n/a
207	Molise	1,297	-8.5%
208	Trier	1,199	n/a
209	Vorarlberg	1,162	n/a
210	Burgenland	1,160	n/a
211	Guyane Series break	1,027	n/a
212	Melilla	630	n/a
213	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	590	+0.3%
214	Mayotte Series break	436	n/a
215	Ceuta	402	n/a
216	Åland	206	-4.2%

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2022
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About this ranking

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.

Counts enterprises, which can run several local units, under the harmonised Eurostat and OECD business demography rules. Not the same as active_companies (the INE business register count for Spain) or employer_firms (US firms with employees). A death is not an insolvency: most enterprises that close do so without a formal insolvency procedure. The latest years are estimated from expected reactivations and are provisional.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the regions are compared on one definition. 17 regions with data in other periods have no value for 2020 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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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.

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Ile-de-France, with 113,872 in 2020, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: 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). Retrieved 2026-10-12. 17 regions have no value for 2020 and are not ranked.