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Businesses in the EU member states 2024

How many enterprises does each EU country have, what share of the EU is that, and how many enterprises are there per 1,000 inhabitants? Based on Eurostat, with the Netherlands in the comparison.

Reference year 2024 · population on 1 January 2024 · Eurostat, data updated on 30 September 2026, retrieved on 13 October 2026 · by Martin Adamec

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  • 33,978,235enterprises in the EU-27 in 2024
  • 2,424,297of which in the Netherlands (7.1%), 6th in the EU
  • 135.1enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants in the Netherlands (1st)
  • 75.6enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants in the EU-27

Enterprises per EU country

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Enterprises in industry, construction and market services (NACE B–S excluding O and S94) per EU country, 2024, sorted by count. Source: Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act); population: Eurostat, Population on 1 January (tps00001), reference date 1 January 2024, data as of 30 September 2026. Shares and values per 1,000 inhabitants calculated by b2bcontacten.nl.
#CountryEnterprisesShare of EUInhabitantsper 1,000 inh.
1France5,445,57716.0%68,669,303 (provisional)79.3
2Italy4,652,41613.7%58,971,23078.9
3Spain3,516,79310.4%48,619,69572.3
4Germany3,236,2819.5%83,456,04538.8
5Poland2,821,1708.3%36,620,97077.0
6Netherlands2,424,2977.1%17,942,942135.1
7Portugal1,470,9374.3%11,204,347131.3
8Czechia1,366,9274.0%10,900,555125.4
9Romania1,030,6033.0%19,067,576 (estimated)54.1
10Greece964,8512.8%10,375,76493.0
11Belgium931,4052.7%11,817,09678.8
12Hungary905,3242.7%9,584,62794.5
13Sweden873,8782.6%10,551,70782.8
14Slovakia682,0292.0%5,424,687125.7
15Austria628,0581.8%9,158,75068.6
16Finland478,7081.4%5,603,85185.4
17Bulgaria415,0871.2%6,445,48164.4
18Ireland410,2051.2%5,351,68176.6
19Denmark379,3061.1%5,961,24963.6
20Lithuania371,2811.1%2,885,891128.7
21Croatia252,1250.7%3,861,96765.3
22Slovenia208,0780.6%2,123,94998.0
23Estonia157,5470.5%1,374,687114.6
24Latvia152,7060.4%1,878,57581.3
25Cyprus94,3790.3%966,36597.7
26Malta59,4960.2%563,443105.6
27Luxembourg48,7710.1%672,05072.6
EU-2733,978,235100.0%449,489,862 (estimated, provisional)75.6

Eurostat counts enterprises in industry, construction and market services; agriculture, public administration, non-market education and health institutions and membership organisations are missing. The figure for the Netherlands (2,424,297) is therefore not equal to the CBS business population.

What the table shows

  • The four largest countries by number of enterprises are France (5,445,577), Italy (4,652,416), Spain (3,516,793), Germany (3,236,281).
  • The Netherlands ranks 6th by number and 1st by enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (135.1, against 75.6 in the EU-27).
  • The highest density is found in Netherlands (135.1), Portugal (131.3), Lithuania (128.7); the lowest in Romania (54.1) and Germany (38.8).

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