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Business demography

Three-year business survival rate

59.8% of Irish enterprises born three years earlier were still active in 2023.

CSO Business Demography · Reference period 2023 · Retrieved 5 July 2026

Latest

59.8

% of enterprises

year on year

-3.1%

vs 2022

Year on year

-3.1%

vs 2022

Record

Within recent range

Three-year business survival rateThree-year business survival rate: 2 observations from 2022 to 2023. Range 59.8 to 61.7 % of enterprises.61.760.859.820222023
Three-year business survival rate - full series. Unit: % of enterprises.

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Period Value (% of enterprises)
2023 59.8
2022 61.7

Methodology and source

Annual three-year survival rate derived from the CSO Business Demography enterprise survival table (BRA36), resolved from the CSO PxStat API by table and statistic label. The CSO publishes counts, not a rate: the figure here divides the official count of enterprise births surviving three years to the reference year by the official count of enterprise births three years earlier, both from the same table and the same business-economy totals. No other adjustment is applied. It is a standard Eurostat business-demography indicator.

Source: CSO Business Demography (table BRA36) · Licence: CC BY 4.0 · Retrieved 5 July 2026.

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