# EU countries by enterprises in wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_enterprises_trade`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of enterprises active at any time during the year in wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles (NACE Rev. 2 section G), 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, Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles (NACE Rev. 2 section G), 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, Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles (NACE Rev. 2 section G), 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-trade/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 969,519 |
| 2 | France | 749,018 |
| 3 | Spain | 687,920 |
| 4 | Germany | 536,665 |
| 5 | Poland | 519,161 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 323,917 |
| 7 | Romania | 266,516 |
| 8 | Czechia | 222,767 |
| 9 | Greece | 220,379 |
| 10 | Portugal | 218,801 |
| 11 | Hungary | 142,035 |
| 12 | Belgium | 140,874 |
| 13 | Bulgaria | 135,930 |
| 14 | Sweden | 113,155 |
| 15 | Slovakia | 103,389 |
| 16 | Austria | 93,575 |
| 17 | Lithuania | 60,062 |
| 18 | Finland | 54,344 |
| 19 | Ireland | 49,299 |
| 20 | Denmark | 39,520 |
| 21 | Croatia | 35,832 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 25,926 |
| 23 | Latvia | 23,752 |
| 24 | Estonia | 22,492 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 16,302 |
| 26 | Malta | 9,879 |
| 27 | Luxembourg | 7,736 |