# EU countries by enterprises in professional, scientific and technical activities, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_enterprises_professional_scientific`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of enterprises active at any time during the year in professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), 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, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), 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, Professional, scientific and technical activities (NACE Rev. 2 section M), 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-professional-scientific/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 923,356 |
| 2 | France | 763,213 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 516,471 |
| 4 | Germany | 482,544 |
| 5 | Spain | 449,295 |
| 6 | Poland | 391,054 |
| 7 | Czechia | 220,439 |
| 8 | Belgium | 206,796 |
| 9 | Sweden | 187,608 |
| 10 | Greece | 167,255 |
| 11 | Portugal | 162,717 |
| 12 | Hungary | 152,349 |
| 13 | Romania | 120,118 |
| 14 | Slovakia | 105,802 |
| 15 | Austria | 99,066 |
| 16 | Finland | 73,174 |
| 17 | Ireland | 54,634 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 49,961 |
| 19 | Lithuania | 49,191 |
| 20 | Denmark | 43,023 |
| 21 | Slovenia | 41,792 |
| 22 | Croatia | 41,615 |
| 23 | Estonia | 28,453 |
| 24 | Latvia | 20,526 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 13,789 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 11,248 |
| 27 | Malta | 9,637 |