# Companies born, companies dissolved

> Formations alone read as growth. Here is the other half.

- Category: Money
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `company-churn`
- Source: [Companies House](https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/companies-born-and-died](https://londongraph.com/g/companies-born-and-died)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/companies-born-and-died](https://londongraph.com/data/companies-born-and-died)

## Methodology

Companies incorporated against companies dissolved each year with a London registered office, counted through the Companies House advanced-search endpoint. Dissolution is recorded when a company is struck off, which can be years after it stopped trading, so the two series are not a like-for-like cohort.

## Visualisations

- [Trend](https://londongraph.com/g/companies-born-and-died): Formations alone read as growth. Here is the other half.
- [Change](https://londongraph.com/g/companies-born-and-died?view=change): Show the change from each preceding published period.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.