Provinces of Spain by enterprise deaths

Madrid province had the highest enterprise deaths of 49 provinces in 2021, at 40,931. Soria province had the lowest, at 323. The median was 2,468 and the figure for Spain was 250,227. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest40,931Madrid province

Lowest323Soria province

Median2,46849 provinces

Spain250,227History

Map of provinces, 2021

Under 800
800 to 1,500
1,500 to 2,500
2,500 to 3,400
3,400 to 5,200
5,200 and over
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count, 2021. Hatched areas have no value for this period. 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). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

All provinces, 2021

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	Provinces	2021 count	Change on 2020
1	Madrid province Series break	40,931	-16.1%
2	Barcelona province Series break	36,542	-15.2%
3	Valencia province Series break	14,752	-17.2%
4	Alicante province Series break	12,112	-20.4%
5	Málaga province Series break	11,511	-21.9%
6	Seville province Series break	9,379	-13.6%
7	Murcia province Series break	7,486	-23%
8	A Coruña province Series break	5,267	-23.2%
9	Cádiz province Series break	5,236	-11.2%
10	Biscay province Series break	5,199	-27.8%
11	Granada province Series break	5,085	-12.3%
12	Asturias province Series break	4,695	-14.4%
13	Pontevedra province Series break	4,580	-24.1%
14	Girona province Series break	4,419	-15.1%
15	Zaragoza province Series break	4,330	-20.8%
16	Tarragona province Series break	4,141	-17.7%
17	Almería province Series break	3,440	-13.3%
18	Córdoba province Series break	3,333	-14.6%
19	Toledo province Series break	3,291	-11.8%
20	Gipuzkoa province Series break	3,138	-26%
21	Castellón province Series break	2,929	-13.4%
22	Badajoz province Series break	2,737	-21.4%
23	Navarre province Series break	2,581	-16.5%
24	Jaén province Series break	2,560	-7.8%
25	Cantabria province Series break	2,468	-15.8%
26	Valladolid province Series break	2,116	-22.1%
27	Lleida province Series break	2,062	-19.1%
28	Huelva province Series break	1,996	-17%
29	León province Series break	1,968	-25.4%
30	Ciudad Real province Series break	1,861	-23%
31	Cáceres province Series break	1,729	-19.2%
32	Albacete province Series break	1,713	-14.7%
33	Ourense province Series break	1,467	-19.5%
34	Burgos province Series break	1,449	-16%
35	Salamanca province Series break	1,448	-18.7%
36	Lugo province Series break	1,426	-22.7%
37	La Rioja province Series break	1,364	-18.1%
38	Álava province Series break	1,212	-20.6%
39	Guadalajara province Series break	1,084	-15%
40	Huesca province Series break	864	-30.1%
41	Cuenca province Series break	830	-17.2%
42	Segovia province Series break	727	-12.8%
43	Ávila province Series break	673	-17.4%
44	Zamora province Series break	671	-28%
45	Melilla province Series break	585	-7.1%
45	Palencia province Series break	585	-18.3%
47	Teruel province Series break	514	-23.5%
48	Ceuta province Series break	339	-15.7%
49	Soria province Series break	323	-13.4%

Other periods

2023
2022
2021
2020

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 provinces 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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APA 7

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) (Provinces of Spain by enterprise deaths, 2021) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table

MLA 9

Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprise deaths, number (bd_size_r), Provinces of Spain 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/spain-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). Provinces of Spain 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/spain-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), Provinces of Spain 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/spain-provinces?period=2021 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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Which province has the highest enterprise deaths?

Madrid province, with 40,931 in 2021, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which province has the lowest enterprise deaths?

Soria province, with 323 in 2021.

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.