Businesses in Europe 2022

In 2022, the European Union was estimated to have approximately 23.2 million enterprises operating in the non-financial business economy, compared with 22.65 million in 2021. Since 2008, there is estimated to have been a net increase of around 3.6 million business enterprises during this period.

Number of enterprises in the non-financial business economy of the European Union (EU27) from 2008 to 2022

Characteristic	Number of enterprises
2008	19,612,958
2009	19,387,184
2010	20,206,963
2011	20,274,278
2012	20,553,157
2013	20,699,895
2014	21,506,088
2015	21,370,504
2016	22,112,982
2017	22,041,356
2018	22,522,722
2019	22,865,630
2020	22,567,303
2021	22,657,314
2022	23,233,582

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Release date

June 2022

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Region

Europe, EU

Survey time period

2008 to 2022

Supplementary notes

*Forecast data

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The data cover the 'non-financial business economy', which includes industry, construction, trade, and services (NACE Rev. 2 sections B to J, L, M and N), but not enterprises in agriculture, forestry and fisheries and the largely non-market service sectors such as education and health. The following size-class definitions are applied: micro firms (0-9 persons employed), small firms (10-49 persons employed), medium-sized firms (50-249 persons employed), and large firms (250+ persons employed). The advantage of using Eurostat data is that the statistics are harmonised and comparable across countries. The disadvantage is that for some countries the data may be different from those published by national authorities.

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