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Bankruptcies
The statistics give an overview of bankruptcies in Norway and are based on data from the Bankruptcy Register.
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1st quarter 2025 2nd quarter 2025 3rd quarter 2025 4th quarter 2025 Total number of bankruptcies 1 178 1 144 911 1 012 Bankruptices related to enterprises 1 027 989 833 866 Personal bankruptcies, incl. sole proprietorships 151 155 78 146 Bankruptcies in construction 298 336 224 246 Bankruptcies in wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 222 177 147 157 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Bankruptcies, by industrial activityDownload table as ...Bankruptcies, by industrial activity
4th quarter 2024 4th quarter 2025 Bankruptcies related to enterprises, excl. sole proprietorships Bankruptcies related to sole proprietorships, incl. personal bankruptcies Bankruptcies related to enterprises, excl. sole proprietorships Bankruptcies related to sole proprietorships, incl. personal bankruptcies Total 1 006 193 866 146 Agriculture, forestry and fishing 14 3 21 2 Mining and quarrying 1 0 3 0 Manufacturing 47 3 40 7 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 2 0 3 0 Water supply 2 0 3 1 Construction 248 75 202 44 Wholesale and retail trade 210 14 152 5 Transportation and storage 48 29 34 38 Accommodation and food service activities 109 7 87 5 Information and communication 43 8 40 5 Financial and insurance activities 4 0 5 0 Real estate activities 53 1 58 1 Professional, scientific and technical activities 91 17 90 15 Administrative and support service activities 46 14 44 6 Public administration and defence 0 0 0 0 Education 7 1 9 1 Human health and social work activities 12 2 22 1 Arts, entertainment and recreation 17 3 12 5 Other service activities 24 7 14 7 Activities of household as employers 0 0 0 0 Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies 0 0 0 0 Unknown industry 28 9 27 3 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Bankruptcies, turnover and persons employed, by industrial activityDownload table as ...Bankruptcies, turnover and persons employed, by industrial activity
4th quarter 2024 4th quarter 2025 Bankruptcies Turnover in NOK 1 000 Persons employed Bankruptcies Turnover in NOK 1 000 Persons employed Total 1 199 8 088 694 4 357 1 012 5 543 597 3 240 Bankruptcies related to enterprises except sole proprietorships 1 006 7 927 724 4 159 866 5 456 936 3 112 Agriculture, forestry and fishing 14 28 329 20 21 .. 91 Mining and quarrying 1 .. 0 3 18 872 9 Manufacturing 47 781 674 427 40 476 370 280 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 2 .. 6 3 11 744 7 Water supply 2 .. 2 3 .. 0 Construction 248 2 256 800 1 116 202 2 110 936 1 095 Wholesale and retail trade 210 3 126 723 1 014 152 921 302 366 Transportation and storage 48 189 933 150 34 298 989 173 Accommodation and food service activities 109 344 600 479 87 257 923 372 Information and communication 43 60 066 108 40 95 384 66 Financial and insurance activities 4 0 3 5 6 0 Real estate activities 53 .. 63 58 .. 113 Professional, scientific and technical activities 91 307 822 197 90 225 966 172 Administrative and support service activities 46 298 276 335 44 143 886 147 Public administration and defence 0 0 0 0 0 0 Education 7 .. 6 9 .. 12 Human health and social work activities 12 .. 75 22 .. 109 Arts, entertainment and recreation 17 135 707 88 12 90 629 66 Other service activities 24 37 779 63 14 12 357 23 Activities of household as employers 0 0 0 0 0 0 Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unknown industry 28 9 895 7 27 17 651 11 Sole proprietorships incl. personal bankruptcies 193 160 970 198 146 86 661 128 Agriculture, forestry and fishing 3 1 448 3 2 .. 6 Mining and quarrying 0 0 0 0 0 0 Manufacturing 3 659 2 7 5 789 9 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 0 0 0 0 0 0 Water supply 0 0 0 1 .. 1 Construction 75 74 354 88 44 17 565 30 Wholesale and retail trade 14 5 099 10 5 5 707 3 Transportation and storage 29 40 286 39 38 30 807 41 Accommodation and food service activities 7 11 388 14 5 3 231 6 Information and communication 8 4 010 4 5 3 181 7 Financial and insurance activities 0 0 0 0 0 0 Real estate activities 1 .. 3 1 .. 1 Professional, scientific and technical activities 17 7 690 8 15 9 590 7 Administrative and support service activities 14 10 078 19 6 3 435 5 Public administration and defence 0 0 0 0 0 0 Education 1 .. 1 1 .. 0 Human health and social work activities 2 .. 1 1 .. 1 Arts, entertainment and recreation 3 1 002 1 5 2 959 5 Other service activities 7 1 905 4 7 2 931 6 Activities of household as employers 0 0 0 0 0 0 Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies 0 0 0 0 0 0 Unknown industry 9 306 1 3 0 0 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Bankruptcies in private limited companies and public limited companies, by county and share capital (in NOK)Download table as ...Bankruptcies in private limited companies and public limited companies, by county and share capital (in NOK)
4th quarter 2024 4th quarter 2025 Total Less than 51 000 51 000-100 000 101 000-250 000 251 000-500 000 More than 500 000 Total Less than 51 000 51 000-100 000 101 000-250 000 251 000-500 000 More than 500 000 Total 991 627 156 52 48 108 859 566 98 55 42 98 Østfold 59 40 9 3 3 4 58 45 6 2 1 4 Akershus 149 105 19 7 7 11 125 96 12 8 3 6 Viken (2020-2023) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Oslo - Oslove 163 100 35 8 3 17 163 117 17 9 3 17 Innlandet 40 29 4 1 1 5 48 27 9 2 2 8 Buskerud 63 50 6 2 3 2 36 25 5 1 3 2 Vestfold 57 39 8 0 0 10 34 20 4 3 2 5 Telemark 38 24 5 3 2 4 31 19 5 1 1 5 Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Agder 76 52 10 2 4 8 33 22 3 3 4 1 Rogaland 58 34 12 3 4 5 77 46 6 7 5 13 Vestland 82 43 12 6 8 13 94 52 20 7 6 9 Møre og Romsdal 44 23 7 5 3 6 39 21 3 5 2 8 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 82 46 17 5 4 10 60 34 4 6 6 10 Nordland - Nordlánnda 38 18 7 5 1 7 41 29 1 1 2 8 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 26 17 4 0 2 3 13 8 1 0 2 2 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 16 7 1 2 3 3 7 5 2 0 0 0 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Svalbard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Bankruptcies, by county and legal formDownload table as ...Bankruptcies, by county and legal form
4th quarter 2024 4th quarter 2025 Total Sole proprietorships incl. personal bankruptcy General Partnership Private limited company Public limited company Company with limited liability Norwegian division of foreign enterprise Other legal form Unknown Total Sole proprietorships incl. personal bankruptcy General Partnership Private limited company Public limited company Company with limited liability Norwegian division of foreign enterprise Other legal form Unknown Total 1 199 193 0 990 1 0 5 10 0 1 010 144 0 859 0 0 3 4 0 Østfold 84 25 0 59 0 0 0 0 0 76 17 0 58 0 0 0 1 0 Akershus 201 49 0 148 1 0 1 2 0 157 32 0 125 0 0 0 0 0 Viken (2020-2023) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Oslo - Oslove 206 43 0 163 0 0 0 0 0 219 55 0 163 0 0 1 0 0 Innlandet 51 9 0 40 0 0 1 1 0 53 5 0 48 0 0 0 0 0 Buskerud 79 15 0 63 0 0 0 1 0 44 5 0 36 0 0 2 1 0 Vestfold 59 2 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 37 3 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 Telemark 40 2 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 35 4 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 Agder 81 4 0 76 0 0 0 1 0 33 0 0 33 0 0 0 0 0 Rogaland 70 10 0 58 0 0 1 1 0 81 4 0 77 0 0 0 0 0 Vestland 95 11 0 82 0 0 0 2 0 101 6 0 94 0 0 0 1 0 Møre og Romsdal 51 5 0 44 0 0 1 1 0 42 3 0 39 0 0 0 0 0 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 89 6 0 82 0 0 0 1 0 68 7 0 60 0 0 0 1 0 Nordland - Nordlánnda 43 4 0 38 0 0 1 0 0 42 1 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 32 6 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 14 1 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 18 2 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Svalbard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 County not stated 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 23 April 2021.
All juridical objects, which includes all types of firms/enterprises and individuals who have unpaid accounts and are by definition insolvent, can be declared bankrupt. Insolvency is defined as: "When one cannot fulfil its obligations after they have matured." An exception from this is when the insolvency is incidental.
Name: Bankruptcies
Topic: Establishments, enterprises and accounts
Division for Business Dynamics Statistics
National, county and municipality level
Monthly and quarterly
The monthly bankruptcy statistics is based on information from the Register of Bankruptcies in Brønnøysund, which Statistics Norway receives once a month. The data contains data on bankruptcies from the 15th of the previous month to the 15th of the current month. The data is revised so that the file contains data for the whole previous month. Monthly numbers of bankruptcies, forced sales and registration execution proceedings are published in table 07218 in StatBank. Other monthly numbers are published in table 09695 og 08551 in StatBank.
Quarterly bankruptcy statistics is based on monthly data, which Statistics Norway receives from the Register of Bankruptcies in Brønnøysund. It is published at the end of the following month after each quarter.
Data is part of a delivery til OECD and a voluntary data collection to Eurostat.
Micro data and information on population are temporarily stored in the program language SAS and over the long term as text files. A main file is updated with new data each month. StatBank is updated each quarter.
The purpose of the statistics is to give a survey on bankruptcies in Norway. Furthermore, it provides a categorisation by county, industry, ownership, as well as number of employees, turnover and amount of share capital.
Data on bankruptcies is available from 1920, and for some industries from 1929. Data from 1981 is available in a database.
From 1995 onwards, it has been possible to identify personal bankruptcies. From the same year, categorisation by industries was based on a new industry standard, called SN94. The Central Register of Establishments and Enterprises is used to categorise the statistics by industries.
Categorisation by industry for personal bankruptcies is mainly based on information from the probate registry. From 1995 to 2001, personal bankruptcies were given a 2-digit industry code by the probate registry. From 2001 onwards, Statistics Norway has determined the 2-digit industry code based on profession descriptions from the Register of Bankruptcies.
The data from the Register of Bankruptcies in Brønnøysund is supplemented with information from the Business Register, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and the Value Added Tax Registration List (the VAT Register).
Users of the statistics are among others financial institutions and the media.
Principles for equal treatment of users in releasing statistics and analyses
No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on www.ssb.no at 8 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given in the Statistics Release Calendar.
The main variables for bankruptcies are: code for municipality and industry, legal forms, number of employees, turnover and amount of share capital. The statistics is linked to the Business Register, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities and the VAT Register. This includes both personal bankrupties (including sole proprietorships) and bankruptcies related to enterprises (exclusive sole proprietorships).
Statistics Act Section 3-2
The statistics includes all bankruptcies in Norway. Information on bankruptcy proceedings is mainly based on information that probate registries and administrators in bankruptcies report to the Register of Bankruptcies. Personal bankruptcies contain bankruptcy proceedings for sole proprietorships and employees. If the debtor is not registered in the Enterprise Register in Brønnøysund, or is a sole proprietorship, the debtor will be classified as en employee. Bankruptcies related to enterprises (exclusive sole proprietorships) are obliged to be registered in the Enterprise register in Brønnøysund.
The data is based on information from the Register of Bankruptcies.
The Register of Bankruptcies transfers a file with bankruptcies to Statistics Norway on the 17th of each month.
Statistics Norway assumes that information on bankruptcies from the Register of Bankruptcies is correct.
If the number of bankruptcies is 3 or less, figures on turnover are not published.
Serial data on bankruptcies is available from 1920, and for some industries from 1929. Data on bankruptcies from 1981 exists in a database. In StatBank, bankruptcy statistics from the 1st quarter of 1999 is presented, as well as total yearly numbers on bankruptcies from 1980.
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Statistics Norway assumes that information on bankruptcies transferred by the Register of Bankruptcies is correct.