Business insolvencies · United Kingdom · 2024
Official national business insolvency proceedings; legal forms, stages and units differ by country. No harmonised international ranking or world total. One point is one nationally recorded proceeding.
Annual value and context
25,413 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.
- Original value
- 25413
- Original unit
- cases
- England und Wales · 23,872 · Original row 20
- Schottland · 1,236 · Original row 19
- Nordirland · 305 · Original row 14
- National procedural definitions differ; no harmonised international ranking or world total.
- Proceedings, not a unique count of closed businesses or current individual reports.
- Original publication for 2024; later register revisions may change the figures.
- UK: company insolvencies in England/Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; excludes Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey.
- Unadjusted annual counts of registered/initiated proceedings. Not all registrations represent cases newly started in the same period.
- A CVL directly following administration is not counted again. Transitions to compulsory liquidation/CVA may, however, be counted again as proceedings.
- England/Wales: bulk CVLs excluded; moratoriums and restructuring plans excluded from this total. Scotland includes provisional liquidations.
- Compulsory liquidations in England/Wales come from a continually revised system; publication snapshot 21 January 2025 is provisional.
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.
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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.
All sources and methodologySources
- Company Insolvency Statistics December 2024 – unadjusted UK annual totals
The Insolvency Service / Companies House · Retrieved 2026-10-05 · 2025-01; original year 2024
Original source · Source licence statement: Open Government Licence v3.0
National procedural definitions differ; no harmonised international ranking or world total. Proceedings, not a unique count of closed businesses or current individual reports. Original publication for 2024; later register revisions may change the figures. UK: company insolvencies in England/Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; excludes Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. Unadjusted annual counts of registered/initiated proceedings. Not all registrations represent cases newly started in the same period. A CVL directly following administration is not counted again. Transitions to compulsory liquidation/CVA may, however, be counted again as proceedings. England/Wales: bulk CVLs excluded; moratoriums and restructuring plans excluded from this total. Scotland includes provisional liquidations. Compulsory liquidations in England/Wales come from a continually revised system; publication snapshot 21 January 2025 is provisional.