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 2019 May 344
Total legal forms all nationalities 2019 June 371
Total legal forms all nationalities 2019 July 356
Total legal forms all nationalities 2019 August 348
Total legal forms all nationalities 2019 September 363
Total legal forms all nationalities 2019 October 341
Total legal forms all nationalities 2019 November 395
Total legal forms all nationalities 2019 December 325
Total legal forms all nationalities 2020 January 357
Total legal forms all nationalities 2020 February 388
Total legal forms all nationalities 2020 March 312
Total legal forms all nationalities 2020 April 415
Total legal forms all nationalities 2020 May 467
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2019 May 32
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2019 June 67
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2019 July 44
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2019 August 45
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2019 September 47
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2019 October 51
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2019 November 53
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2019 December 28
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2020 January 46
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2020 February 55
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2020 March 32
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2020 April 33
Nat. person without sole proprietorship 2020 May 61
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2019 May 48
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2019 June 31
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2019 July 41
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2019 August 45
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2019 September 59
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2019 October 39
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2019 November 53
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2019 December 48
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2020 January 47
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2020 February 66
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2020 March 31
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2020 April 46
Nat. person with sole proprietorship 2020 May 70
Companies and institutions 2019 May 264
Companies and institutions 2019 June 273
Companies and institutions 2019 July 271
Companies and institutions 2019 August 258
Companies and institutions 2019 September 257
Companies and institutions 2019 October 251
Companies and institutions 2019 November 289
Companies and institutions 2019 December 249
Companies and institutions 2020 January 264
Companies and institutions 2020 February 267
Companies and institutions 2020 March 249
Companies and institutions 2020 April 336
Companies and institutions 2020 May 336
Source: CBS.
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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.

Changes as of April 12, 2024:
The March 2024 figures have been added.

When will new figures be published?
April 2024 figures are expected to be published on May 13, 2024.

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.