Enterprise birth rate
Enterprises born during the year as a percentage of all active enterprises, covering industry, construction and market services.
34 countries have a value for 2024, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% of active enterprises. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10.4% | 7.8%b (break in time series) | 14.2% | 9.4% |
| 2023 | 10.5% | 8.4% | 14.1% | 9.1% |
| 2022 | 10.5% | 8.0% | 14.3%b (break in time series) | 8.6% |
| 2021 | 10.8% | 7.8% | 16.2%b (break in time series) | 9.2%b (break in time series) |
Flags: b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 34 countries with a value for 2024, the highest is Lithuania (17.5%) and the lowest Austria (6.3%).
- Half of the countries are above 10.8% and half below.
- From 2023 to 2024 the value rose in 13 countries and fell in 20.
- The figure for the European Union in 2024 was 10.4%.
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Source and dates
All countries in 2024 Every value is for 2024, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Lithuania 17.5%
- 2 Portugal 16.1%
- 3 Türkiye 15.8%
- 4 Malta 14.4%
- 5 France 14.2%
- 6 Latvia 13.9%
- 7 Montenegro 12.4%d (definition differs (see metadata))
- 8 Finland 12.3%
- 9 Albania 12.2%
- 10 Estonia 12.1%
- 11 Croatia 11.9%
- 12 Romania 11.6%
- 13 Serbia 11.4%
- 14 Poland 11.2%
- 15 Iceland 11.2%e (estimated)
- 16 Slovakia 10.9%
- 17 Ireland 10.8%
- 18 Norway 10.8%
- 19 Bulgaria 10.4%
- 20 Slovenia 10.0%
- 21 Cyprus 9.7%
- 22 Czechia 9.6%
- 23 Spain 9.4%
- 24 North Macedonia 9.3%
- 25 Greece 9.1%
- 26 Sweden 9.0%
- 27 Hungary 8.6%
- 28 Luxembourg 8.5%
- 29 Netherlands 8.2%
- 30 Belgium 8.0%
- 31 Italy 7.9%
- 32 Germany 7.8%b (break in time series)
- 33 Denmark 7.2%
- 34 Austria 6.3%
- European Union 10.4%
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Grey: no value for 2024. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.