Business demography
Enterprise deaths
There were 33,705 enterprise deaths in the Republic of Ireland in 2022.
Latest
33,705
year on year
+17.2% ↑
Year on year
+17.2%
Record
Highest on record (series begins 2017)
What the numbers say
Enterprise deaths in Ireland reached 33,705 in 2022, the highest level recorded since the series began in 2017. This represents an increase of 17.2% on the 2021 figure, marking a notable acceleration in business closures year on year. The 2022 total stands as the peak observation in the available data.
Full data
Download CSV| Period | Value (enterprises) |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 33,705 |
| 2021 | 28,750 |
| 2020 | 29,700 |
| 2019 | 30,555 |
| 2018 | 28,971 |
| 2017 | 28,466 |
Methodology and source
Annual count of final enterprise deaths from the CSO Business Demography release, resolved from the CSO PxStat API by table and statistic label. An enterprise death is the dissolution of a combination of production factors, excluding exits caused by merger, takeover or restructuring. Only deaths the CSO has confirmed as final (two years of non-reactivation) are included, so the series lags about two years but never overstates closures; preliminary death counts are not mixed in.
Source:CSO Business Demography (table BRA35) · Licence: CC BY 4.0 · Retrieved 5 November 2026.
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