# EU countries by enterprises in mining and quarrying, 2024

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `sbs_enterprises_mining`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of enterprises active at any time during the year in mining and quarrying (NACE Rev. 2 section B), from Eurostat structural business statistics. An enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that produces goods or services with some autonomy in its decisions; one enterprise can have several local units.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Structural business statistics, Mining and quarrying (NACE Rev. 2 section B), enterprises, number (sbs_ovw_act) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Structural business statistics, Mining and quarrying (NACE Rev. 2 section B), enterprises, number (sbs_ovw_act). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sbs_ovw_act/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/enterprises-mining/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Poland | 2,414 |
| 2 | Italy | 1,713 |
| 3 | Spain | 1,580 |
| 4 | Germany | 1,523 |
| 5 | Romania | 1,308 |
| 6 | Finland | 1,120 |
| 7 | Portugal | 961 |
| 8 | France | 895 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 715 |
| 10 | Sweden | 568 |
| 11 | Greece | 541 |
| 12 | Czechia | 508 |
| 13 | Ireland | 405 |
| 14 | Slovakia | 404 |
| 15 | Hungary | 365 |
| 16 | Austria | 332 |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 273 |
| 18 | Latvia | 272 |
| 19 | Denmark | 226 |
| 20 | Croatia | 183 |
| 21 | Estonia | 174 |
| 22 | Belgium | 160 |
| 23 | Lithuania | 143 |
| 24 | Slovenia | 92 |
| 25 | Malta | 62 |
| 26 | Cyprus | 44 |
| 27 | Luxembourg | 9 |