| Characteristic | Business survival rate |
|---|---|
| Sweden | 97.11% |
| Netherlands | 95.66% |
| Hungary | 95.06% |
| Belgium | 93.8% |
| Greece | 92.7% |
| United Kingdom* | 89.18% |
| Romania | 87.97% |
| Cyprus | 87.78% |
| Luxembourg | 86.74% |
| Austria | 85.69% |
| Slovakia | 84.51% |
| Poland | 84.19% |
| Slovenia | 84.06% |
| North Macedonia | 83.64% |
| Czechia | 83.14% |
| Norway | 82.48% |
| European Union (EU28) | 82.06% |
| Switzerland | 81.98% |
| Finland | 81.79% |
| Ireland | 81.64% |
| Croatia | 81.45% |
| France | 80.97% |
| Italy | 80.92% |
| Turkey | 80.47% |
| Bulgaria | 78.73% |
| Estonia | 78.65% |
| Spain | 78.6% |
| Latvia | 77.01% |
| Malta | 75.71% |
| Portugal | 73.84% |
| Iceland | 73.45% |
| Denmark | 72.99% |
| Germany | 72.94% |
| Lithuania | 64.24% |
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April 2024
Europe, EU
2020
*2018.
In the Business Demography context, survival occurs if an enterprise is active in terms of employment and/or turnover in the year of birth and the following year(s). Two types of survival can be distinguished:
1. An enterprise born in year xx is considered to have survived in year xx+1 if it is active in terms of turnover and/or employment in any part of year xx+1 (= survival without changes).
2. An enterprise is also considered to have survived if the linked legal unit(s) have ceased to be active, but their activity has been taken over by a new legal unit set up specifically to take over the factors of production of that enterprise (= survival by take-over).
