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NUTS 3 areas of Italy by enterprise deaths

Roma had the highest enterprise deaths of 107 areas in 2021, at 25,715. Isernia had the lowest, at 414. The median was 1,499 and the figure for Italy was 266,496. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

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Highest25,715Roma
Lowest414Isernia
Median1,499107 areas
Italy266,496History

Top 40 areas, 2021

Roma: 25,715 countRoma25,715Milano: 19,512 countMilano19,512Napoli: 13,956 countNapoli13,956Torino: 10,470 countTorino10,470Firenze: 5,088 countFirenze5,088Brescia: 5,026 countBrescia5,026Salerno: 4,922 countSalerno4,922Bari: 4,903 countBari4,903Bologna: 4,814 countBologna4,814Caserta: 4,530 countCaserta4,530Catania: 4,507 countCatania4,507Palermo: 4,408 countPalermo4,408Bergamo: 4,285 countBergamo4,285Padova: 4,262 countPadova4,262Genova: 4,090 countGenova4,090Verona: 4,048 countVerona4,048Monza e della Brianza: 3,854 countMonza e della Brianza3,854Lecce: 3,675 countLecce3,675Varese: 3,529 countVarese3,529Treviso: 3,338 countTreviso3,338Vicenza: 3,297 countVicenza3,297Venezia: 3,221 countVenezia3,221Modena: 3,200 countModena3,200Perugia: 2,879 countPerugia2,879Messina: 2,867 countMessina2,867Cosenza: 2,718 countCosenza2,718Latina: 2,568 countLatina2,568Reggio nell’Emilia: 2,353 countReggio nell’Emilia2,353Como: 2,349 countComo2,349Pavia: 2,336 countPavia2,336Foggia: 2,321 countFoggia2,321Cuneo: 2,232 countCuneo2,232Frosinone: 2,204 countFrosinone2,204Cagliari: 2,199 countCagliari2,199Sassari: 2,170 countSassari2,170Reggio Calabria: 2,165 countReggio Calabria2,165Pisa: 2,074 countPisa2,074Parma: 1,988 countParma1,988Taranto: 1,982 countTaranto1,982Udine: 1,956 countUdine1,956Roma: 25,715 countRoma25,715Milano: 19,512 countMilano19,512Napoli: 13,956 countNapoli13,956Torino: 10,470 countTorino10,470Firenze: 5,088 countFirenze5,088Brescia: 5,026 countBrescia5,026Salerno: 4,922 countSalerno4,922Bari: 4,903 countBari4,903Bologna: 4,814 countBologna4,814Caserta: 4,530 countCaserta4,530Catania: 4,507 countCatania4,507Palermo: 4,408 countPalermo4,408Bergamo: 4,285 countBergamo4,285Padova: 4,262 countPadova4,262Genova: 4,090 countGenova4,090Verona: 4,048 countVerona4,048Monza e della Brianza: 3,854 countMonza e della Brianza3,854Lecce: 3,675 countLecce3,675Varese: 3,529 countVarese3,529Treviso: 3,338 countTreviso3,338Vicenza: 3,297 countVicenza3,297Venezia: 3,221 countVenezia3,221Modena: 3,200 countModena3,200Perugia: 2,879 countPerugia2,879Messina: 2,867 countMessina2,867Cosenza: 2,718 countCosenza2,718Latina: 2,568 countLatina2,568Reggio nell’Emilia: 2,353 countReggio nell’Emilia2,353Como: 2,349 countComo2,349Pavia: 2,336 countPavia2,336Foggia: 2,321 countFoggia2,321Cuneo: 2,232 countCuneo2,232Frosinone: 2,204 countFrosinone2,204Cagliari: 2,199 countCagliari2,199Sassari: 2,170 countSassari2,170Reggio Calabria: 2,165 countReggio Calabria2,165Pisa: 2,074 countPisa2,074Parma: 1,988 countParma1,988Taranto: 1,982 countTaranto1,982Udine: 1,956 countUdine1,956
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

RankAreas2021
count		Change on 2020
1Roma25,715-4.1%
2Milano19,512+0.9%
3Napoli13,956+0.3%
4Torino10,470-0.7%
5Firenze5,088-6.4%
6Brescia5,026-2.4%
7Salerno4,922-1.3%
8Bari4,903+3.5%
9Bologna4,814+1.9%
10Caserta4,530+7.8%
11Catania4,507+2.1%
12Palermo4,408+1.5%
13Bergamo4,285+3%
14Padova4,262+1.3%
15Genova4,090+1.1%
16Verona4,048+2.7%
17Monza e della Brianza3,854+4.2%
18Lecce3,6750%
19Varese3,529+10.4%
20Treviso3,338-2.8%
21Vicenza3,297-0.8%
22Venezia3,221-2.6%
23Modena3,200-1.3%
24Perugia2,879+1.7%
25Messina2,867+2.3%
26Cosenza2,718-0.5%
27Latina2,568-1.4%
28Reggio nell’Emilia2,353+0.6%
29Como2,349+1.6%
30Pavia2,336+2.9%
31Foggia2,321-1.3%
32Cuneo2,232+4.7%
33Frosinone2,204-1.4%
34Cagliari2,199+3.1%
35Sassari2,170+5.3%
36Reggio Calabria2,165-4.1%
37Pisa2,074-0.7%
38Parma1,988-3.1%
39Taranto1,982-0.8%
40Udine1,956-0.1%
41Ancona1,943+1.7%
42Trento1,902-0.6%
43Rimini1,842+3.7%
44Lucca1,813-4.3%
45Bolzano-Bozen1,787-5.1%
46Avellino1,722+1.4%
47Pescara1,718-4.1%
48Alessandria1,702-2%
49Catanzaro1,672-1.2%
50Prato1,668-4.8%
51Forlì-Cesena1,602-1%
52Trapani1,582-3%
53Ravenna1,526+1.2%
54Agrigento1,499-6.3%
55Chieti1,489-7.6%
56Brindisi1,487-2.6%
57Mantova1,480-7.6%
58Pesaro e Urbino1,478+0.5%
59Arezzo1,476-3.8%
59Novara1,476+1.2%
61Livorno1,470+1.3%
62Teramo1,446-3.7%
63Macerata1,423-4.6%
64Siracusa1,422-8.4%
65Barletta-Andria-Trani1,395+4.4%
66Ferrara1,388+0.4%
67L’Aquila1,375-4.6%
68Pistoia1,367-8.8%
69Viterbo1,356-5.8%
70Savona1,266+0.5%
71Benevento1,260+8.1%
72Potenza1,259-3.7%
73Lecco1,232+0.2%
74Piacenza1,223+5.5%
75Cremona1,204-1.8%
76Ragusa1,187+3.2%
77Siena1,172-2.1%
78Sud Sardegna1,075+6%
79Pordenone1,051+1.9%
80Campobasso987+11.1%
81Ascoli Piceno984+8%
82Trieste982+12%
83Terni973-0.3%
84Rovigo951+6.7%
85Grosseto948+4.9%
86Imperia946-3.1%
87La Spezia934-4.1%
88Massa-Carrara920-12%
89Caltanissetta886-9.6%
90Asti862+5.6%
91Fermo861-3.7%
92Nuoro795+6.3%
93Lodi763+1.1%
94Rieti694-2.3%
95Vercelli665+6.7%
96Belluno664+1.8%
97Crotone660-7.2%
98Matera656-9.5%
99Vibo Valentia641+3.7%
100Biella637-11.2%
101Sondrio579-2.2%
102Verbano-Cusio-Ossola567+2.7%
103Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste549-6.9%
104Enna545-3.2%
105Oristano516-1.5%
106Gorizia471-5%
107Isernia414+1.2%

Other periods

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, 2021) [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, 2021. 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=2021. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

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, 2021. 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=2021.

Harvard

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, 2021 [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=2021 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Roma, with 25,715 in 2021, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

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Isernia, with 414 in 2021.

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