Business demography
Enterprise deaths
There were 28,750 enterprise deaths in the Republic of Ireland in 2021.
Latest
28,750
year on year
-3.2% ↓
Year on year
-3.2%
Record
Within recent range
Full data
Download CSV| Period | Value (enterprises) |
|---|---|
| 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 September 2026.
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