NUTS 3 areas of Italy by enterprise deaths

Roma had the highest enterprise deaths of 107 areas in 2020, at 26,821. Isernia had the lowest, at 409. The median was 1,601 and the figure for Italy was 267,568. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest26,821Roma

Lowest409Isernia

Median1,601107 areas

Italy267,568History

Top 40 areas, 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	Areas	2020 count	Change on 2019
1	Roma	26,821	-6.8%
2	Milano	19,339	-5.8%
3	Napoli	13,919	-11.6%
4	Torino	10,547	-6.3%
5	Firenze	5,433	-15.6%
6	Brescia	5,148	-4.2%
7	Salerno	4,989	-12.4%
8	Bari	4,737	-14%
9	Bologna	4,724	-11.5%
10	Catania	4,415	-8.3%
11	Palermo	4,341	-2.8%
12	Padova	4,207	-10.2%
13	Caserta	4,203	-8.2%
14	Bergamo	4,160	-7.6%
15	Genova	4,046	-10.2%
16	Verona	3,943	-11.5%
17	Monza e della Brianza	3,699	-13.8%
18	Lecce	3,675	-10.7%
19	Treviso	3,435	-6.8%
20	Vicenza	3,325	-7.4%
21	Venezia	3,307	-13.7%
22	Modena	3,242	-3%
23	Varese	3,198	-14.5%
24	Perugia	2,830	-8.3%
25	Messina	2,803	+2.6%
26	Cosenza	2,731	-13.7%
27	Latina	2,604	-7.9%
28	Foggia	2,351	-11.7%
29	Reggio nell’Emilia	2,338	-7.2%
30	Como	2,312	-11%
31	Pavia	2,270	-9%
32	Reggio Calabria	2,258	-0.7%
33	Frosinone	2,236	-6.7%
34	Cagliari	2,133	-3.7%
35	Cuneo	2,132	-5.3%
36	Pisa	2,089	-12%
37	Sassari	2,060	-11.3%
38	Parma	2,052	+1%
39	Taranto	1,997	-10.5%
40	Udine	1,958	-2.4%
41	Trento	1,913	-8.7%
42	Ancona	1,911	-6.5%
43	Lucca	1,895	-8.8%
44	Bolzano-Bozen	1,883	-5.7%
45	Pescara	1,792	+1%
46	Rimini	1,776	-8.3%
47	Prato	1,753	-4.8%
48	Alessandria	1,737	-8.4%
49	Avellino	1,699	-15.4%
50	Catanzaro	1,692	-5.9%
51	Trapani	1,631	-5.3%
52	Forlì-Cesena	1,618	-2.8%
53	Chieti	1,612	-8%
54	Mantova	1,601	-9%
55	Agrigento	1,600	-10.6%
56	Siracusa	1,552	-2%
57	Arezzo	1,534	-10.6%
58	Brindisi	1,527	-9.9%
59	Ravenna	1,508	-6.6%
60	Teramo	1,501	-9%
61	Pistoia	1,499	-2.3%
62	Macerata	1,491	-0.5%
63	Pesaro e Urbino	1,470	-11.3%
64	Novara	1,458	-6.7%
65	Livorno	1,451	-14.9%
66	L’Aquila	1,441	-6.5%
67	Viterbo	1,439	-7.3%
68	Ferrara	1,383	-8.7%
69	Barletta-Andria-Trani	1,336	-12.6%
70	Potenza	1,308	-16.8%
71	Savona	1,260	-12.1%
72	Lecco	1,229	-2.7%
73	Cremona	1,226	-9.2%
74	Siena	1,197	-12%
75	Benevento	1,166	-18.9%
76	Piacenza	1,159	-10.1%
77	Ragusa	1,150	-11.3%
78	Massa-Carrara	1,046	-8.2%
79	Pordenone	1,031	-8.5%
80	Sud Sardegna	1,014	-16.3%
81	Caltanissetta	980	-7.1%
82	Imperia	976	-5%
82	Terni	976	-2.9%
84	La Spezia	974	-13.5%
85	Ascoli Piceno	911	-8.8%
86	Grosseto	904	-13.5%
87	Fermo	894	-5.6%
88	Rovigo	891	-16.2%
89	Campobasso	888	-10.1%
90	Trieste	877	-9%
91	Asti	816	-4.2%
92	Lodi	755	-12.1%
93	Nuoro	748	-12.9%
94	Matera	725	-13.6%
95	Biella	717	-8%
96	Crotone	711	+3.3%
97	Rieti	710	-4.6%
98	Belluno	652	-4.7%
99	Vercelli	623	-16.4%
100	Vibo Valentia	618	-9.6%
101	Sondrio	592	-5.4%
102	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	590	+0.3%
103	Enna	563	-0.2%
104	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola	552	-24.3%
105	Oristano	524	-9.7%
106	Gorizia	496	-2.6%
107	Isernia	409	-4.7%

Other periods

2023
2022
2021
2020
2019

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 areas are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

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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Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (bd_size_r) (NUTS 3 areas of Italy by enterprise deaths, 2020) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table

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Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (bd_size_r), NUTS 3 areas of Italy by enterprise deaths, 2020. Eurostat, European Commission, 13 Mar. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-deaths/italy-provinces?period=2020. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (bd_size_r). NUTS 3 areas of Italy by enterprise deaths, 2020. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-deaths/italy-provinces?period=2020.

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Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (bd_size_r), NUTS 3 areas of Italy by enterprise deaths, 2020 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprise-deaths/italy-provinces?period=2020 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which area has the highest enterprise deaths?

Roma, with 26,821 in 2020, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

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Isernia, with 409 in 2020.

Where does this ranking come from?

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.