Bankruptcies and registrations decrease in Q1 2025

Bankruptcies and registrations decrease in Q1 2025

In the first quarter of 2025, the number of bankruptcy declarations of EU businesses decreased by 0.9% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024.

At the same time, business registrations also dropped by 5.1% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024.

This information comes from data on business registrations and bankruptcies published by Eurostat today. This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article.

Registrations of businesses and declarations of bankruptcies, Q1 2018 - Q1 2025. Line chart - Click below to see full dataset

Source dataset: sts_rb_q

Source: Eurostat, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=ddn-20250516-1