Business demography
Enterprise births
There were 44,418 enterprise births in the Republic of Ireland in 2024.
Latest
44,418
year on year
-6.6% ↓
Year on year
-6.6%
Record
Within recent range
Full data
Download CSV| Period | Value (enterprises) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 44,418 |
| 2023 | 47,542 |
| 2022 | 47,540 |
| 2021 | 37,597 |
| 2020 | 36,577 |
| 2019 | 26,910 |
Methodology and source
Annual count of active enterprise births from the CSO Business Demography release, resolved from the CSO PxStat API by table and statistic label. An enterprise birth is the creation of a new combination of production factors with no other enterprise involved, measured across the business economy (NACE B to N excluding holding companies).
Source:CSO Business Demography (table BRA31) · Licence: CC BY 4.0 · Retrieved 5 November 2026.
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