Bankruptcies, adjusted for court session days

Bankruptcies, adjusted for court session days

Type of bankruptcy Periods Bankruptcies (session day corrected) (number)
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 February 381
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 March 374
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 April 384
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 May 374
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 June 413
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 July 448
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 August 357
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 September 407
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 October 360
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 November 378
Total legal forms all nationalities 2024 December 361
Total legal forms all nationalities 2025 January* 367
Total legal forms all nationalities 2025 February* 399
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 February 33
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 March 34
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 April 22
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 May 30
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 June 31
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 July 40
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 August 25
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 September 34
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 October 32
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 November 25
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2024 December 36
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2025 January* 49
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2025 February* 36
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 February 32
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 March 45
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 April 44
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 May 31
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 June 37
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 July 45
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 August 40
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 September 53
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 October 37
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 November 43
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2024 December 30
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2025 January* 48
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2025 February* 26
Companies and institutions 2024 February 316
Companies and institutions 2024 March 295
Companies and institutions 2024 April 318
Companies and institutions 2024 May 313
Companies and institutions 2024 June 345
Companies and institutions 2024 July 363
Companies and institutions 2024 August 292
Companies and institutions 2024 September 320
Companies and institutions 2024 October 291
Companies and institutions 2024 November 310
Companies and institutions 2024 December 295
Companies and institutions 2025 January* 270
Companies and institutions 2025 February* 337
Source: CBS.
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Table explanation


This table contains the number of bankruptcy orders issued by Dutch courts. Numbers are broken down by type of bankruptcy (natural persons with or without sole proprietorship, enterprises and institutions). The outcomes have been corrected for the effects of session days of the courts. Usually, bankruptcies are pronounced on a fixed day in the week, mostly Tuesday. As a result, a calendar month may contain four or five so-called session days. As a result, the number of pronounced bankruptcies can fluctuate from month to month. The series of outcomes in this publication have been cleaned for the effect of session days.

Data available from: January 1981

Status of the figures:
The results are provisional during the year under review. The results will be declared definite in the first quarter following the year under review.

Wijzigingen per 12 maart 2025:
De uitkomsten over de maand februari 2025 zijn toegevoegd.

Wanneer komen er nieuwe cijfers?
De uitkomsten over de maand maart 2025 verschijnen naar verwachting op 11 april 2025.

Description topics

Bankruptcies (session day corrected)
The number of natural persons (with and without sole proprietorship), companies and institutions declared bankrupt by court ruling, corrected for the effect of the number of session days per month of courts.

Bankruptcy
State which a legal unit is declared to have entered by the court when it has ceased to pay. The assets and revenues of that legal unit (the debtor) are then taken to pay off the debts. The bankruptcy can be pronounced at the request of a creditor, the debtor himself or the Public Prosecution Service. After the income and assets have been paid out to creditors, the bankruptcy is terminated but the debtor is often not debt-free. Residual debts remain due and payable. The bankruptcy of a legal entity at the request of a creditor can only be made if there is also a debt to another creditor.