per 1,000 businesses - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's business insolvency rate was 5 per 1,000 businesses as of October 2026. Companies entering formal insolvency each financial year per 1,000 actively trading businesses. This normalises the raw insolvency count against the size of the business population, which has grown substantially over time. Raw insolvency counts rise partly because there are simply more businesses. The rate per 1,000 businesses shows whether financial distress is genuinely more common, independent of business-population growth. Data is sourced from Derived: ASIC Insolvency Statistics ÷ ABS Counts of Australian Businesses (Cat. 8165.0) × 1,000 and updated annually.
Companies entering formal insolvency per financial year ÷ businesses actively trading at 30 June × 1,000.
Insolvencies (ASIC, financial-year basis) are divided by the stock of actively trading businesses (ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, Cat. 8165.0, 30 June snapshot) for the same year. The rate runs through the latest financial year ABS has published the business count.
Source frequency: Mixed (annual output from inputs at various frequencies, carried forward to monthly display)
Companies entering formal insolvency each financial year per 1,000 actively trading businesses. This normalises the raw insolvency count against the size of the business population, which has grown substantially over time.
Raw insolvency counts rise partly because there are simply more businesses. The rate per 1,000 businesses shows whether financial distress is genuinely more common, independent of business-population growth.
Lower is better
Source: Derived: ASIC Insolvency Statistics ÷ ABS Counts of Australian Businesses (Cat. 8165.0) × 1,000
