# Regions of France (NUTS 2) by enterprise deaths, 2023

All 27 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/france-regions

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ile-de-France | 144,085 |
| 2 | Rhône-Alpes | 62,736 |
| 3 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | 59,450 |
| 4 | Aquitaine | 35,160 |
| 5 | Languedoc-Roussillon | 29,457 |
| 6 | Midi-Pyrénées | 28,255 |
| 7 | Pays de la Loire | 26,008 |
| 8 | Nord-Pas de Calais | 24,451 |
| 9 | Bretagne | 23,400 |
| 10 | Centre - Val de Loire | 16,014 |
| 11 | Alsace | 13,705 |
| 12 | Lorraine | 13,513 |
| 13 | Poitou-Charentes | 12,956 |
| 14 | Bourgogne | 10,816 |
| 15 | Haute-Normandie | 10,801 |
| 16 | Picardie | 10,606 |
| 17 | Basse-Normandie | 9,123 |
| 18 | Auvergne | 8,867 |
| 19 | Champagne-Ardenne | 7,760 |
| 20 | Franche-Comté | 7,143 |
| 21 | La Réunion | 6,741 |
| 22 | Limousin | 4,794 |
| 23 | Martinique | 3,915 |
| 24 | Corse | 3,906 |
| 25 | Guadeloupe | 3,625 |
| 26 | Guyane | 1,459 |
| 27 | Mayotte | 285 |