# Autonomous communities of Spain by enterprise deaths, 2023

All 19 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-regions

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Catalonia | 51,120 |
| 2 | Andalusia | 47,783 |
| 3 | Community of Madrid | 42,764 |
| 4 | Valencian Community | 32,190 |
| 5 | Galicia | 13,671 |
| 6 | Canary Islands | 13,210 |
| 7 | Basque Country | 10,385 |
| 8 | Castile and León | 10,323 |
| 9 | Castilla-La Mancha | 10,128 |
| 10 | Balearic Islands | 9,104 |
| 11 | Region of Murcia | 8,030 |
| 12 | Aragon | 6,236 |
| 13 | Asturias | 5,046 |
| 14 | Extremadura | 4,989 |
| 15 | Navarre | 3,423 |
| 16 | Cantabria | 2,707 |
| 17 | La Rioja | 1,520 |
| 18 | Melilla | 478 |
| 19 | Ceuta | 344 |