EU Business Formation Dynamics
Net business creation across Europe: enterprise births, deaths, active-population, birth/death/churn rates, net population growth, jobs created & lost, and 1/3/5-year survival rates - by country x NACE sector x year, 2009-2023. Sourced from Eurostat Business Demography (bd_size), cleaned to one tidy Parquet panel. Aggregate flows only, no company-level data.
- Source
- BIZDEMOGRAPHY
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Annual
- Data through
- 2023-01-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- 33 European countries (EU + EFTA + candidates), 2009-2023, annual
- 12 indicators: births, deaths, active enterprises, birth/death/churn rates, net business-population growth, jobs in newly-born & dying firms, 1/3/5-year survival
- 21 NACE Rev.2 sectors incl. a 'Total business economy' headline
- 252 country-sector-indicator series, ~25k rows, analysis-ready long format
- Aggregate business-formation flows - no PII, no entity register
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | ISO-2 country code (EU/EFTA/candidate) | 100.0% | 33 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | First day of the reference year | 100.0% | 15 |
| series | str | Indicator - NACE sector, e.g. 'Enterprise births - Manufacturing' | 100.0% | 252 |
| value | float | The figure (count, persons, or % per the unit) | 100.0% | 13,402 |
| unit | str | Unit of the value (count / persons / %) | 100.0% | 5 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: BIZDEMOGRAPHY (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("eu-business-formation_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 33 zones
AL · AT · BE · BG · CY · CZ · DE · DK · EE · EL · ES · FI · FR · HR · HU · IE · IS · IT · LT · LU · LV · MK · MT · NL · NO · PL · PT · RO · RS · SE · SI · SK · TR
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