Business demography
Enterprise births
There were 47,542 enterprise births in the Republic of Ireland in 2023.
Latest
47,542
year on year
+0.0% ↑
Year on year
+0.0%
Record
Highest on record (series begins 2019)
What the numbers say
In 2023, there were 47,542 enterprise births recorded in Ireland, the highest figure since the series began in 2019. The number was unchanged from 2022, reflecting a year-on-year change of 0.0%. This stable level of new enterprise formation represents the peak of the available record for this series.
Full data
Download CSV| Period | Value (enterprises) |
|---|---|
| 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 September 2026.
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