Enterprise Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 September 2017

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Questions (123)

Niall Collins

Question:

123. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Taoiseach the average enterprise start-up rate in each EU country as measured by new companies started as a percentage of total companies in a given year; and if he will provide the EU 28 average rate in tabular form. [38300/17]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach

European Business Demography statistics measure the population of active enterprises in each Member State and include figures on the number of enterprise births (startups). An enterprise birth is deemed to occur the first year it shows activity (i.e. it generates turnover, employs staff or makes investments). The birth year may or may not be the same as the year of registration. The latest breakdown of the number of enterprise births available from Eurostat is for the year 2015. The figures relate to enterprises in the private business economy, i.e private sector businesses in the Industry, Construction, and Services sectors (NACE Rev 2 codes B to N, excluding code 64.20 “Activities of Holding Companies”) as classified by the CSO.

The following table contains the enterprise birth figures and birth rate by country for the years 2014 and 2015

Table 1 - Number of Enterprise Births and Birth rate in the Private Business Economy by EU country, 2014 and 2015

			2014			2015
	No. of Enterprises	No. of Births	% Birth Rate	No. of Enterprises	No. of Births	% Birth Rate
EU (28 countries)	26,307,386	2,586,423	9.83	:	:	:
Belgium	634,384	39,070	6.16	642,130	41,102	6.40
Bulgaria	332,800	39,333	11.82	339,175	40,358	11.90
Czech Rep.	1,022,045	93,360	9.13	1,026,355	85,645	8.34
Denmark	217,960	24,283	11.14	:	:	:
Germany	2,818,836	202,984	7.20	2,795,899	198,135	7.09
Estonia	80,473	8,631	10.73	82,769	8,512	10.28
Ireland	238,249	16,257	6.82	248,843	18,100	7.27
Greece	:	:	:	:	:	:
Spain	2,943,908	287,611	9.77	2,970,947	274,172	9.23
France	3,414,614	339,075	9.93	:	:	:
Croatia	146,766	11,411	7.77	146,129	12,185	8.34
Italy	3,846,659	274,489	7.14	3,819,956	279,132	7.31
Cyprus	49,121	3,375	6.87	:	:	:
Latvia	100,979	15,194	15.05	110,310	19,003	17.23
Lithuania	177,752	43,543	24.50	185,954	34,490	18.55
Luxembourg	31,246	3,134	10.03	31,906	2,989	9.37
Hungary	522,058	52,101	9.98	531,121	56,799	10.69
Malta	31,841	3,599	11.30	:	:	:
Netherlands	1,075,534	108,786	10.11	1,112,691	107,946	9.70
Austria	419,779	29,480	7.02	413,929	28,311	6.84
Poland	2,025,270	253,061	12.50	2,059,967	249,815	12.13
Portugal	793,457	117,168	14.77	:	:	:
Romania	696,142	70,912	10.19	695,108	79,496	11.44
Slovenia	137,438	15,158	11.03	141,118	15,154	10.74
Slovakia	438,067	86,672	19.79	446,471	53,899	12.07
Finland	293,808	23,002	7.83	:	:	:
Sweden	727,258	52,606	7.23	740,182	53,185	7.19
UK	2,218,955	316,540	14.27	:	:	:

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