More births than deaths among Latvian businesses

In 2024, there were 34 million enterprises in the EU, of which 3.5 million were created that year. At the same period, 3.1 million enterprise deaths were registered. This resulted in an enterprise birth rate of 10.4% and a death rate of 9.2%.

In 19 of the 27 EU countries, more companies were created than dissolved in 2024. On the contrary, in Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, the number of enterprises dissolved surpassed the number...