Written answers
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Department of An Taoiseach
Enterprise Data
Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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123. To ask 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]
Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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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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