Closing a business, cost (% of estate) by country

About this data

Indicator

Closing a business, cost (% of estate)

Unit

% of estate

Source

World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/)

Licence

CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Coverage

52 places, 502 data points, 2003–2012

Last refreshed

21 August 2026

The cost of the proceedings is recorded as a percentage of the estate’s value. The cost is calculated on the basis of survey responses by insolvency practitioners and includes court fees as well as fees of insolvency practitioners, independent assessors, lawyers and accountants. Respondents provide cost estimates from among the following options: less than 2%, 2–5%, 5–8%, 8–11%, 11–18%, 18–25%, 25–33%, 33–50%, 50–75% and more than 75% of the value of the business estate. This is the cost of the bankruptcy proceedings. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/.