The US report 453 thousand bankruptcy filings in 2023. There are 33 million small businesses in the US. Etc, etc, etc. Big numbers are hard to put in perspective - which the very fine article was very careful NOT to do. Obviously it was not 52 thousand large companies but there again, one would need comparative numbers to say for sure. On top of which most single large corporations usually owns dozens to thousands of separately incorporated units. Who knows what that number is about.