# Provinces of Spain by enterprise deaths, 2023

All 49 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/spain-provinces

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Madrid province | 42,764 |
| 2 | Barcelona province | 39,035 |
| 3 | Valencia province | 16,308 |
| 4 | Málaga province | 13,087 |
| 5 | Alicante province | 12,875 |
| 6 | Seville province | 10,343 |
| 7 | Murcia province | 8,030 |
| 8 | Cádiz province | 5,958 |
| 9 | A Coruña province | 5,571 |
| 10 | Granada province | 5,514 |
| 11 | Biscay province | 5,500 |
| 12 | Girona province | 5,177 |
| 13 | Asturias province | 5,046 |
| 14 | Pontevedra province | 5,028 |
| 15 | Tarragona province | 4,637 |
| 16 | Zaragoza province | 4,539 |
| 17 | Almería province | 3,826 |
| 18 | Toledo province | 3,754 |
| 19 | Córdoba province | 3,724 |
| 20 | Gipuzkoa province | 3,559 |
| 21 | Navarre province | 3,423 |
| 22 | Badajoz province | 3,017 |
| 23 | Castellón province | 3,007 |
| 24 | Jaén province | 2,889 |
| 25 | Cantabria province | 2,707 |
| 26 | Huelva province | 2,442 |
| 27 | Ciudad Real province | 2,304 |
| 28 | Lleida province | 2,271 |
| 29 | Valladolid province | 2,185 |
| 30 | León province | 2,036 |
| 31 | Cáceres province | 1,972 |
| 32 | Albacete province | 1,938 |
| 33 | Ourense province | 1,567 |
| 34 | Burgos province | 1,534 |
| 35 | La Rioja province | 1,520 |
| 36 | Lugo province | 1,505 |
| 37 | Salamanca province | 1,480 |
| 38 | Álava province | 1,326 |
| 39 | Guadalajara province | 1,223 |
| 40 | Huesca province | 1,062 |
| 41 | Cuenca province | 909 |
| 42 | Segovia province | 754 |
| 43 | Ávila province | 732 |
| 44 | Zamora province | 673 |
| 45 | Teruel province | 635 |
| 46 | Palencia province | 583 |
| 47 | Melilla province | 478 |
| 48 | Soria province | 346 |
| 49 | Ceuta province | 344 |