The World's Most Comprehensive Database
D&B manages the world’s most valuable commercial database with information on more than 200 million companies.
Business information is gathered in over 220 countries and cities, in 95 languages or dialects, covering 181 monetary currencies. The database is refreshed over 1.5 million times a day as part of our commitment to provide accurate, comprehensive information to our customers globally.
D&B Global Information File Inventory (As of January 2012)
Information
| Total Number of Businesses | 206,148,055 |
| Payment and Bank Experiences | Over 1 billion |
| Public Records (includes Suits, Liens, Judgments and Bankruptcies and other Government information) | Over 159,000,000 million |
| Company Records part of a Family Tree | 15,635,913 |
Total companies in the database: 206.1M
• 129.4 million active companies in the database available for risk, supply, sales & marketing and e-business decisions.
• 76.7 million inactive companies available with historical information for file matching and data cleansing purposes.
Active companies by Region:
| Africa | 1,184,582 |
| Asia Pacific | 27,451,196 |
| Europe | 54,409,439 |
| Middle East | 1,008,477 |
| Latin America | 12,097,055 |
| North America | 33,282,653 |
| Grand Total | 129,433,402 |