Checked Barometer August 2024
Edition of 26 September 2026 · KBO · Belgian Official Gazette
In August 2024, the Belgian Official Gazette published 467 bankruptcies, 2.9% more than in August 2023. In August 2024, 6,909 companies were incorporated, 9.2% more than in August 2023.
This edition was compiled on 26 September 2026, after its regular publication date (6 September 2024). The figures are that day's count and no longer change.
Bankruptcies
467
+2.9% year on year-42% month on month
10,170 over twelve months
Judicial reorganisations
29
-12% year on year-48% month on month
493 over twelve months
Judicial dissolutions
10
-90% year on year-98% month on month
4,851 over twelve months
In brief
Sentences taken straight from this edition's figures. Credit Checked.be as the source.
Incorporations
- In August 2024, 6,909 companies were incorporated, 9.2% more than in August 2023.
- Compared with July 2024 (11,431), that is 40% fewer.
- Over the twelve months from September 2023 to August 2024 there were 116,552, 12% more than the twelve months before.
Bankruptcies
- In August 2024, the Belgian Official Gazette published 467 bankruptcies, 2.9% more than in August 2023.
- Compared with July 2024 (803), that is 42% fewer.
- Over the twelve months from September 2023 to August 2024 there were 10,170, 29% more than the twelve months before.
- By area: 204 in Flanders, 120 in Wallonia and 143 in Brussels and Halle-Vilvoorde.
Judicial reorganisations
- In August 2024, the Belgian Official Gazette published 29 judicial reorganisations, 12% fewer than in August 2023.
- Compared with July 2024 (56), that is 48% fewer.
- Over the twelve months from September 2023 to August 2024 there were 493, 6% more than the twelve months before.
Judicial dissolutions
- In August 2024, the Belgian Official Gazette published 10 judicial dissolutions, 90% fewer than in August 2023.
- Compared with July 2024 (480), that is 98% fewer.
- Over the twelve months from September 2023 to August 2024 there were 4,851, 5.4% more than the twelve months before.
- That is the lowest monthly figure since January 2019, the start of this series.
By region
August 2024, with the change on the same month a year earlier.
| Area | Incorporations | Bankruptcies | Judicial reorganisations | Judicial dissolutions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | 3,745+12% | 204-13% | 6-57% | 40% |
| Wallonia | 1,590+11% | 120+4.3% | 16+6.7% | 6-60% |
| Brussels and Halle-Vilvoorde | 1,164+2.5% | 143+36% | 7+75% | 0-100% |
| No known area | 410+3.5% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Belgium | 6,909+9.2% | 467+2.9% | 29-12% | 10-90% |
The Brussels courts also serve Halle-Vilvoorde, so that arrondissement counts with Brussels. Incorporations follow the registered office (for a sole trader, the first establishment).
Bankruptcies by sector
August 2024 against August 2023. Main activity according to the KBO (NACE 2025).
The sector is known for only 44% of the cases; too few to show a breakdown by sector.
Incorporations by sector
August 2024 against August 2023. Main activity according to the KBO (NACE 2025).
August 2024
August 2023
- Professional and technical services ≥ 1,008
- Construction ≥ 639
- Wholesale and retail trade ≥ 526
- Administrative and support services ≥ 472
- Other services ≥ 397
- Accommodation and food service ≥ 305
- Health and social work ≥ 291
- Telecoms and IT ≥ 261
- Arts, sports and recreation ≥ 229
- Manufacturing ≥ 200
Show all 22 sectors
- Education ≥ 194
- Transport and storage ≥ 176
- Real estate ≥ 173
- Finance and insurance ≥ 123
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing ≥ 63
- Publishing and media ≥ 52
- Households ≥ 24
- Energy ≥ 14
- Public administration ≥ 10
- Water and waste ≥ 3
- Mining and quarrying ≥ 2
- Extraterritorial organisations ≥ 0
The sector is known for 75% of the cases of August 2024 (1,747 without a sector). Hence no change per sector. This edition kept no count of active companies, so no figure per 10,000.
Notable sectors
The largest shifts against August 2023, from 10 cases and a difference of 5 cases.
For bankruptcies, the sectors of this month and of August 2023 are not equally well known (44% and 32%); a comparison per sector would measure our coverage, not the economy.
For incorporations, the sectors of this month and of August 2023 are not equally well known (75% and 79%); a comparison per sector would measure our coverage, not the economy.
Cite these figures
This page no longer changes: the link keeps pointing at the same figures.
Checked.be, Checked Barometer August 2024 (edition of 26 September 2026), https://checked.be/en/barometer/2024-08
How these figures are counted
- An edition appears on day 6 of the next month, so the last days of the month are processed, and is then frozen: the figures on this page no longer change. If data for the month arrives later, it is listed above under Revisions.
- Incorporations: companies per month of their start date in the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, sole traders included.
- Bankruptcies, judicial reorganisations (opening) and judicial dissolutions: by month of publication in the Belgian Official Gazette, not of the judgment.
- Sectors: the main activity (NACE 2025) the KBO gave the company. Where the sector of part of the cases is unknown, the figure carries "≥" and we compare per sector only when both months are equally well known.
- Per 10,000 active companies: the month's figure against the sector's active companies on the day the edition was frozen.