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Country-linked stock and rate split again here: the United States dominates on count, while Japan, Finland, and Germany are sharper on narrative-gap rate.
Which country-linked CT.gov portfolios most often leave older closed study pages without both detailed descriptions and primary outcome descriptions? We analysed 249,507 eligible older closed interventional studies from the March 29, 2026 full-registry snapshot and exploded country links. We defined a narrative-gap study as one missing both detailed description and primary outcome description, then ranked country-linked portfolios with at least 500 linked studies by stock and rate. The United States led the narrative-gap stock table at 9,049 studies, followed by Germany at 2,438, France at 2,420, and Canada at 1,853. Japan had the sharpest large-country narrative-gap rate at 17.9 percent, ahead of Finland at 16.6 percent and Germany at 16.3 percent. Country-linked narrative gaps show where registry pages remain text-thin even when they retain dates, status fields, and other basic metadata on the public page for readers. Country-linked rows are non-exclusive because multinational studies can contribute to more than one national portfolio in the registry tables.