Pronounced Bankruptcies; company age and number of employees; 2015-2022

Pronounced Bankruptcies; company age and number of employees; 2015-2022

Sector/branches Type of bankruptcy Periods Employees in event of bankruptcy (numbers)
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Total entities with/without legal pers. 2022 175
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Companies and institutions 2022 171
A Agriculture, forestry and fishing Natural persons with sole proprietorship 2022 4
J Information and communication Total entities with/without legal pers. 2022 348
J Information and communication Companies and institutions 2022 344
J Information and communication Natural persons with sole proprietorship 2022 3
Source: CBS.
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This table contains the numbers of bankruptcy orders issued by Dutch courts, broken down by legal form (natural persons with sole proprietorship, companies and institutions). In addition, the tables contain the average company age and number of employees (in FTEs) at the time of the bankruptcy order.

Data available from Q1 2015 to Q4 2022.

Status of the figures:
All figures are final data.

Changes as of 13 December 2023:
The table has been discontinued.

Description topics

Employees in event of bankruptcy
Employees (Employed persons) involved in the bankruptcy, expressed in full-time equivalents (FTEs). Employed person is a person who has a job at a company established in the Netherlands or at a private household in the Netherlands.
In this investigation, hired and / or seconded staff and temporary workers are counted as persons employed by the company, not staff hired to third parties.