# EU countries by enterprises in water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `sbs_enterprises_water_waste`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of enterprises active at any time during the year in water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation (NACE Rev. 2 section E), 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, Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation (NACE Rev. 2 section E), 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, Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation (NACE Rev. 2 section E), 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-water-waste/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | France | 12,891 |
| 2 | Germany | 9,769 |
| 3 | Italy | 8,579 |
| 4 | Poland | 8,186 |
| 5 | Czechia | 7,071 |
| 6 | Spain | 7,053 |
| 7 | Romania | 3,419 |
| 8 | Austria | 2,799 |
| 9 | Finland | 2,410 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 2,288 |
| 11 | Denmark | 2,250 |
| 12 | Slovakia | 2,223 |
| 13 | Greece | 2,080 |
| 14 | Hungary | 1,728 |
| 15 | Belgium | 1,478 |
| 16 | Sweden | 1,435 |
| 17 | Portugal | 1,309 |
| 18 | Ireland | 1,110 |
| 19 | Croatia | 790 |
| 20 | Bulgaria | 766 |
| 21 | Slovenia | 404 |
| 22 | Lithuania | 352 |
| 23 | Estonia | 319 |
| 24 | Latvia | 293 |
| 25 | Cyprus | 247 |
| 26 | Malta | 165 |
| 27 | Luxembourg | 68 |