60,000 small businesses and artisans in France went bankrupt in 2025.
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- Omissions
- The official total number of bankruptcies in France in 2025 was 69,957 (up 3.1% from 2024), higher than the 60,000 claimed — the claim refers to a subset (small businesses/artisans) of that total.
- The official Banque de France category closest to 'petites entreprises et artisans' is 'Microentreprises et taille indéterminée', which stood at about 56,058 (12-month cumulative to Nov 2025) and up to about 62,919 (12-month cumulative to Dec 2025) — '60,000' is a rounding within this range.
- The exact official figure depends on the definition used (microenterprises vs. all PME vs. total), and no official statistic uses precisely the category 'small businesses and artisans'.
- Sources used include data published after the session date (e.g. the full-year 2025 tally published in early 2026), which the MEP could not have consulted directly at the time of the speech, though the reference period (2025) is correct.
- Sources
- PrimaryBanque de France — Défaillances d'entreprises (2025-11)Table shows: 'PME, dont, 59 309, 68 230 ; Microentreprises et taille indéterminée, 56 058, 62 812'; text: 'À fin novembre 2025, le nombre de défaillances est de 68 296 en cumul sur les douze derniers mois'.
- PrimaryBanque de France — Défaillances d'entreprises (2025-12)Table shows: 'PME, dont, 59 309, 68 356, 4,6%, 15,3% ; Microentreprises et taille indéterminée, 56 058, 62 919, 4,2%, 12'.
- PrimaryBanque de France — Business failures, France (2026-01)'At the end of January 2026, the number of corporate bankruptcies over the last twelve months amounted to 68,961 (see graph 1), slightly higher...'
- SecondaryINSOL Europe — National Insolvency Statistics, France'69 957 judgments opening insolvency proceedings were registered for the overall 2025 (+ 3,1% compared to 2024) including: • 47 078 liquidation proceedings (+ 0, ...)'
- SecondaryUMIH — Près de 70 000 défaillances d'entreprises en 2025'Au total, 69 957 défaillances ont été recensées en 2025 (+3,1%), pour plus de 47 000 liquidations judiciaires et plus de 21 000 redressements.'