Business demography
Three-year business survival rate
52.7% of Irish enterprises born three years earlier were still active in 2024.
Latest
52.7
year on year
-11.9% ↓
Year on year
-11.9%
Record
Within recent range
What the numbers say
In 2024, the three-year business survival rate in Ireland stood at 52.7%, meaning that just over half of enterprises were still operating three years after starting up. This represents a year-on-year change of -11.9% compared with 2023, indicating a notable weakening in survival outcomes over the period. The figures suggest that conditions for sustaining new businesses over a three-year horizon became more difficult between 2023 and 2024.
Full data
Download CSV| Period | Value (% of enterprises) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 52.7 |
| 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 November 2026.
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