Data / Coverage
Global coverage of operating businesses
507M registered legal entities, 186M operational companies across 250 countries and territories. Refreshed continuously, with provenance and confidence on every field.
Geographic coverage
Coverage across every region
Veridion indexes companies globally, with the deepest coverage in digitally mature markets and fast-growing emerging regions.
East Asia
North America
Western Europe
South America
South Asia
Eastern Europe
Southeast Asia
Oceania
Sub-Saharan Africa
MENA
Northern Europe
Central Asia
Southern Europe
Central America
Caribbean
Definitions
Operating companies and legal entities
Veridion's primary lens is operational: entities with a live digital footprint that proves current activity. Legal entities are covered globally and linked to their operational counterparts.
A company with a live digital footprint and commercial activity: an active company domain, social presence, marketplace storefront, or press activity.
Use for commercial targeting, supplier discovery, market intelligence, and underwriting.
Refreshed continuously. Live.A registered legal business entity, active or inactive, with or without a digital footprint. Sourced from jurisdictional registries. Includes shells and dormant entities.
Use for KYB, sanctions screening, beneficial-ownership work, and regulatory data quality.
Registry-sourced. Refresh varies by jurisdiction.Some operating companies are digital-only and never appear in registries (UK non-limited companies, US DBAs). Many registered entities are shells or dormant: carried in the legal overlay, excluded from the operational count.
Company size
Most of the world is not enterprise-scale
The global economic backbone is primarily made out of small and medium businesses, the segment most commercial sources miss entirely.
- 84% Micro (1-10 employees)
- 15% Small (11-100 employees)
- 1% Mid-market & Large (101-1,000 employees)
- 1% Enterprise (1,000+ employees)
Industry coverage
Classified against every major taxonomy
Every entity is classified against external taxonomies and a proprietary Veridion classification. Proprietary tags extend beneath the external codes to capability and product level.
Across 186M operating companies, here are the largest sectors we classify. Each bar shows the sector size relative to the largest.
Freshness
Every attribute carries a refresh cadence
Core attributes re-evaluate weekly; change signals flow continuously; each value carries a confidence score and source lineage.
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Extracted values come directly from a source, with a URL and date. Modelled values are inferred when a direct figure is unavailable, at a lower confidence band. Both carry provenance and a confidence score.
Evidence
Three benchmarks on the record
Verified accuracy, density, and regional capability — from independent registry checks, third-party address validation, and delivered customer data.
Match rate across 9,037 companies in five Melbourne postcodes, with 21,900 additional businesses surfaced beyond the reference set.
Independent registry spot-check.Third-party verified address accuracy across UK operating companies.
UK client benchmark.Transportation operators across eleven CEE countries, delivered January 2025. Filterable to trucking operators, fleet capacity, and Germany-bound activity.
Sample delivered to client.Known gaps
Honest about where the data thins
Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and informal economies have sparser signal density. Digital presence remains the strongest indicator of coverage.
- Sub-Saharan Africa: thinner private company coverage outside South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya.
- Central Asia: limited signal density for micro-companies.
- Informal economies: entities without digital presence are structurally harder to detect.
Coverage
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Data
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One living index of companies. Different views, same underlying intelligence.