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Of the EU’s 34 million active enterprises in 2024, 3.5 million were created that year, Eurostat reported on 1 October. The enterprise birth rate was 10.4% and the death rate was 9.2%.

Enterprise deaths totalled 3.1 million, with those data remaining preliminary. Businesses reactivated within two years are not counted as deaths, so this is different from a final count of bankruptcy declarations.