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   "coverage": "Collective-proceedings judgments published in the BODACC, opening judgments only (liquidation, redressement judiciaire, sauvegarde), one per company and type per month, counted in the month of publication. Complete from January 2025; earlier months are not covered. Sole proprietors and other natural persons (about one opening notice in eight) are not counted, so this is not the Banque de France count of business failures, which includes them and is dated by the judgment."
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   "covered_to": null,
   "coverage": "Not covered. The national insolvency portal does not say which notice opens a proceeding, and our collection grew during 2025 and 2026, so a monthly count of first-published cases rose by about half in a year while the Federal Statistical Office reported a rise of about 7%. Germany is withdrawn until openings can be separated."
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   "covered_to": "2026-09",
   "coverage": "Creditors' voluntary liquidations, winding-up orders (compulsory liquidation) and administrations, from the Gazette, one per company and type, counted in the month of the first notice. Members' voluntary (solvent) liquidations are not counted. The Gazette series starts in April 2025; April is not published."
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   "name": "Denmark",
   "covered_from": "2024-10",
   "covered_to": "2026-09",
   "coverage": "Bankruptcy (konkurs) proceedings, one per proceeding, in the month of the bankruptcy decree. The history is complete. Contains CVR data (Erhvervsstyrelsen), CC BY 4.0."
  },
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   "name": "Sweden",
   "covered_from": "2026-04",
   "covered_to": "2026-09",
   "coverage": "Bankruptcy (konkurs), company reorganisation (företagsrekonstruktion) and composition negotiations (ackordsförhandling), one per company and type per month. Bolagsverket's file lists ongoing proceedings only, so a month is published in the five months after it closes and is not revised afterwards; months before April 2026 are not published, because proceedings that had already ended were missing from them."
  },
  "FI": {
   "name": "Finland",
   "covered_from": null,
   "covered_to": null,
   "coverage": "Not covered. Bankruptcies registered in the Trade Register ran between 2% and 22% below Statistics Finland's monthly count of limited-company bankruptcies, and the gap moved from month to month, so a monthly change could not be read from them."
  },
  "NL": {
   "name": "Netherlands",
   "covered_from": "2026-05",
   "covered_to": "2026-09",
   "coverage": "Bankruptcies (faillissement) and suspensions of payment (surseance van betaling) of legal entities, one per company and type, in the month of the court's decision; a suspension converted into a bankruptcy counts as both. The register drops a case six months after it ends, so a month is published only in the five months after it closes and is not revised afterwards; the series begins when the tracker was first published."
  },
  "AT": {
   "name": "Austria",
   "covered_from": null,
   "covered_to": null,
   "coverage": "Not covered. The Austrian source is a rolling list of current edicts, not dated by opening, and has gaps in its collection; new proceedings per month cannot be derived."
  },
  "CH": {
   "name": "Switzerland",
   "covered_from": null,
   "covered_to": null,
   "coverage": "Not covered. The official gazette (SHAB) mixes the stages of a bankruptcy (provisional notice, call to creditors, closure) and each notice is not typed in our data, so openings cannot be separated; collection also began in 2026."
  },
  "NO": {
   "name": "Norway",
   "covered_from": "2026-06",
   "covered_to": "2026-09",
   "coverage": "Companies recorded in the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities as in bankruptcy (konkurs), one per company, in the month of the bankruptcy date. The register lists ongoing bankruptcies only, so a month is published in the five months after it closes and is not revised afterwards; the series starts in June 2026, the first month whose count matched Statistics Norway's enterprise bankruptcies (within 1%)."
  },
  "HR": {
   "name": "Croatia",
   "covered_from": null,
   "covered_to": null,
   "coverage": "Not covered. Court decisions are held only for companies still on the commercial register, so earlier months are understated by an unknown amount."
  },
  "US": {
   "name": "United States",
   "covered_from": null,
   "covered_to": null,
   "coverage": "Not covered. Federal bankruptcy filings of businesses are collected only where the public court-records project (CourtListener/RECAP) holds the docket, a small fraction of filings, and collection stopped in March 2026."
  },
  "ES": {
   "name": "Spain",
   "covered_from": null,
   "covered_to": null,
   "coverage": "Not covered yet. Spain joined the insolvency API on 15 October 2026 (concurso notices from BORME); no monthly series is published for it yet."
  },
  "LV": {
   "name": "Latvia",
   "covered_from": "2024-10",
   "covered_to": "2026-09",
   "coverage": "Insolvency proceedings of legal persons opened by a court (maksātnespējas process), one per proceeding, in the month it opened; legal protection proceedings are not counted. The register is complete since 2008 and its yearly counts match the Central Statistical Bureau's. Monthly numbers are small (about 15 to 35), so compare quarters or the twelve-month total. Contains data from the Insolvency Register of the Republic of Latvia (Register of Enterprises), CC0."
  },
  "EE": {
   "name": "Estonia",
   "covered_from": null,
   "covered_to": null,
   "coverage": "Not covered. Bankruptcy declarations are held only for companies still on the register, so monthly counts are understated by an unknown amount."
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