Business insolvencies · Germany · 2024

Annual value and context

21,812 proceedings
Original period: 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Reported by source

No matching population figure for the original year is available here. No value per 100,000 inhabitants is therefore calculated.

Indicator

Insolvenzstatistik 52411, Unternehmensinsolvenzen: Abschnitt 22,4 % mehr Unternehmensinsolvenzen im Jahr 2024

Original value

21812

Original unit

Anzahl beantragte Unternehmensinsolvenzen

Companies covered

Unternehmensinsolvenzen nach Destatis; Verbraucher und ehemals selbständig Tätige separat

Stage of proceedings

Beantragte Verfahren statistisch nach erster Entscheidung des Insolvenzgerichts erfasst

Counting unit

Verfahren; kein nachgewiesener konzernweiter Unique-Unternehmenszähler

Coverage

Gesamtes Deutschland, alle Unternehmensrechtsformen nach amtlicher Definition; Erfassungsdatum nicht gleich Antragsdatum, oftmals etwa drei Monate Verzögerung.

• Official national business insolvency proceedings; legal forms, stages and units differ by country. No harmonised international ranking or world total.
• A case does not necessarily mean final business closure. Not a current individual report or a real location/time.
• Historical provisional publication snapshots are explicitly identified; no claim to the latest revisions.
• Countries not included remain unknown; no extrapolation from rates of change.
• Business insolvencies under Destatis; consumers and formerly self-employed persons reported separately.
• Applications are statistically recorded at the insolvency court's first decision.
• Proceedings; not a verified group-wide count of unique businesses.
• All Germany, all business legal forms under the official definition; recording date differs from filing date, often by about three months.

Coverage and quantity per point

12 of 239 countries and territories with data. Known values for other areas are marked separately in the table; unassigned epicentres are not a country.

Normal map view: 1 proceedings / point. In focus: 1 proceedings / point. Quantity controls do not change annual values.

Topics

• Beer consumption
• Births
• Public charging points
• Territorial fossil CO₂ emissions
• Coffee consumption
• Coffee production
• Conflict deaths
• Deaths
• Earthquakes of magnitude 5 or above
• Gross domestic product (GDP)
• Business insolvencies
• Intentional homicides
• Net change in the number of millionaires
• New registered companies
• Oil consumption: demand for petroleum products
• Parcel deliveries (CEP)
• Granted invention patents
• New photovoltaic installations
• Road deaths
• New vehicles
• Registered violent offences: four selected groups
• New onshore wind turbines

What the map shows

The map simulates statistical times from annual data. It does not report individual events actually happening now. Point counters show currently visible simulated points; the timeline records only regular points observed during the session.

Random points within a country are a display model, not actual event locations or regional consumption hotspots. Earthquakes retain their historical USGS epicentres. Start examples are labelled and excluded from counts. Background gaps are not replayed.

Original years, national definitions and recording boundaries differ. Tables are alphabetical and do not provide a reliable country ranking. With mixed source years, the breakdown of death points is a display model, not an exact balance of causes. Point quantities and fade durations do not change annual values.

Sources

• Insolvency statistics 52411, business insolvencies

  Statistisches Bundesamt · Retrieved 2026-10-05 · 2025-03-14

  Original source

  Official national business insolvency proceedings; legal forms, stages and units differ by country. No harmonised international ranking or world total. A case does not necessarily mean final business closure. Not a current individual report or a real location/time. Historical provisional publication snapshots are explicitly identified; no claim to the latest revisions. Countries not included remain unknown; no extrapolation from rates of change. Business insolvencies under Destatis; consumers and formerly self-employed persons reported separately. Applications are statistically recorded at the insolvency court's first decision. All Germany, all business legal forms under the official definition; recording date differs from filing date, often by about three months.