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Registrations and bankruptcies

Bankruptcies
Q4/2024 (preliminary)
1 713
Increased +20.6% compared to 4th quarter 2023
Registrations of legal units
Q4/2024 (preliminary)
13 812
Decreased -9.9% compared to 4th quarter 2023

Statistics Austria is obliged to continuously compile quarterly data on registrations of legal units and on bankruptcies from the first quarter of 2021 onwards. Legal base is EU regulation on European business statistics and on national level the Unternehmensdemografiestatistik-Verordnung. In Austria, the data is produced already from reference year 2019 on and published by aggregated economic activities (ÖNACE 2008) 40 days after the end of the respective reporting quarter.

A registration is the recording of a legal unit in the business register for administrative purposes (URV) under certain premises. In addition to the URV, the statistical business register (URS) represents a central database for the data on registrations. The data on bankruptcies are based on the judicial bankruptcy proceedings; the main source is the Judicial edict file of the Federal Ministry of Justice. 

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Statistics on bankruptcies. Compiled on 7 February 2025. – Preliminary data 4th quarter 2024.

S: STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Statistics on registrations. Compiled on 7 February 2025. – Preliminary data 4th quarter 2024.

Date Title PDF download
2025-02-10 file Bankruptcies in 2024 at a very high level
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2024-11-08 file More bankruptcies in Q3 than a year ago
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2024-08-09 file Significantly more bankruptcies in Q2 2024
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2024-05-08 file Bankruptcies at record level at the start of 2024
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2024-02-09 file Significantly more bankruptcies in 2023
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2023-11-09 file Registrations of legal units continued to decrease in Q3 2023
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2023-08-10 file Fewer registrations of legal units in Q2 2023
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2023-05-10 file Increase in bankruptcies at the beginning of 2023
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2023-02-09 file Bankruptcies in 2022 back at pre-Corona level
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2022-11-08 file Bankruptcies in Q3 2022 again at pre-crisis level
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2022-08-09 file Bankruptcies in Q2 2022 at pre-Corona level
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2022-05-10 file Bankruptcies sharply increased again in the first quarter of 2022; registrations decreased
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2025-11-10 calendar-alt Registrations and bankruptcies 3rd quarter 2025
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2025-08-08 calendar-alt Registrations and bankruptcies 2nd quarter 2025
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2025-05-08 calendar-alt Registrations and bankruptcies, 1st quarter 2025
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Last updated on 2025-02-10.