France business failures (12-month cumulative): agriculture
France business failures (12-month cumulative): agriculture stood at 1,775 units in Jul 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Business demography table (Value · Monthly), with a complete series running from Dec 1990 to Jul 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Business demography table
| Indicator | 07-2026 | 06-2026 | 05-2026 | 04-2026 | 03-2026 | 02-2026 | 01-2026 | 12-2025 | 11-2025 | 10-2025 | |
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| Business failures (INSEE) | |||||||||||
| 12-month cumulative raw data - Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 1,775 | 1,791 | 1,801 | 1,758 | 1,750 | 1,749 | 1,732 | 1,680 | 1,658 | 1,657 | |
| 12-month cumulative raw data - Industry | 4,442 | 4,460 | 4,447 | 4,467 | 4,477 | 4,414 | 4,404 | 4,401 | 4,404 | 4,410 |
Understanding france business failures (12-month cumulative): agriculture
Crop producers, livestock farmers, commercial fishermen, and forestry operators facing formal court-ordered insolvency are aggregated over a rolling twelve-month window without seasonal adjustment. This cumulative raw series smooths out short-term monthly volatility in primary production bankruptcies by summing the preceding year of unadjusted data. By evaluating a full annual cycle at every monthly data point, the metric eliminates recurring agricultural seasonal patterns without applying complex mathematical smoothing algorithms.
Interpreting this twelve-month cumulative total requires recognizing that it reacts sluggishly to sudden economic shocks because past months remain in the calculation for a full year. Analysts should avoid treating month-to-month changes in this series as rapid trend reversals; instead, the trajectory reflects the annualized burden of agricultural insolvencies. Comparing this cumulative count with monthly adjusted series highlights the trade-off between smoothing out seasonal noise and maintaining timely responsiveness to emerging financial distress.
Frequently asked questions
- What does a 12-month cumulative total mean for agricultural failures?
- It sums all recorded bankruptcies over the preceding twelve months, providing an annualized snapshot at each monthly interval.
- Why use unadjusted cumulative data instead of monthly adjusted figures?
- Accumulating twelve months of data naturally washes out seasonal harvesting and weather cycles without altering the original case counts.
- How quickly does this cumulative series reflect sudden changes in farm bankruptcies?
- Because it spans a full year, sudden spikes or drops take twelve months to fully phase through the calculation.