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

All 38 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/germany-regions

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Oberbayern | 21,750 |
| 2 | Berlin | 20,090 |
| 3 | Düsseldorf | 18,767 |
| 4 | Darmstadt | 16,907 |
| 5 | Köln | 16,388 |
| 6 | Stuttgart | 14,221 |
| 7 | Schleswig-Holstein | 10,100 |
| 8 | Arnsberg | 10,085 |
| 9 | Karlsruhe | 9,929 |
| 10 | Hamburg | 9,414 |
| 11 | Brandenburg | 8,067 |
| 12 | Freiburg | 7,499 |
| 13 | Münster | 7,393 |
| 14 | Weser-Ems | 7,279 |
| 15 | Hannover | 6,721 |
| 16 | Schwaben | 6,529 |
| 17 | Rheinhessen-Pfalz | 6,512 |
| 18 | Tübingen | 6,099 |
| 19 | Detmold | 6,018 |
| 20 | Mittelfranken | 5,860 |
| 21 | Lüneburg | 5,197 |
| 22 | Thüringen | 5,122 |
| 23 | Sachsen-Anhalt | 4,913 |
| 24 | Koblenz | 4,723 |
| 25 | Dresden | 4,352 |
| 26 | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 4,241 |
| 27 | Niederbayern | 4,111 |
| 28 | Unterfranken | 3,984 |
| 29 | Braunschweig | 3,907 |
| 30 | Chemnitz | 3,564 |
| 31 | Leipzig | 3,444 |
| 32 | Kassel | 3,437 |
| 33 | Gießen | 3,343 |
| 34 | Saarland | 3,297 |
| 35 | Oberpfalz | 3,154 |
| 36 | Oberfranken | 2,927 |
| 37 | Bremen | 2,250 |
| 38 | Trier | 1,470 |