CT.gov Country Overdue Debt
2026-03-29 | full-registry ct.gov audit | plots, figures, and e156 bundle
Series
Country Debt Dashboard

Country overdue debt shows where chronic CT.gov silence accumulates most heavily over time

The United States dominates country overdue debt by a wide margin, Canada and France remain the next largest debt holders, Germany carries a very old unresolved profile, and the largest chronic backlog is concentrated in a handful of big CT.gov geographies.

Debt stock
Mean age
Missing results
Country-linked

Dashboard

The United States dominates country overdue debt on stock, Canada and France follow, Germany carries the heaviest mean unresolved age among the biggest portfolios, and the main chronic backlog remains concentrated in a small set of large CT.gov geographies.

How to read the dashboard
US debt
491,364
Unresolved years
Canada debt
90,480
Unresolved years
France debt
89,004
Unresolved years
Germany mean
9.4y
Mean unresolved age
Top country overdue debt
OVERDUE DEBTTop unresolved years beyond the two-year mark by country-linked portfolioUnited States491,364Canada90,480France89,004Germany77,270United Kingdom68,732Spain45,901Italy43,355China42,540South Korea41,844Netherlands38,171
The United States towers over the debt table, but Canada, France, and Germany remain major long-duration backlogs.
This is geography read as chronic stock.
Mean unresolved age by country
MEAN UNRESOLVED AGEMean years beyond the two-year mark among unresolved country-linked studiesPuerto Rico14Peru12South Africa11Slovakia11Estonia11Argentina11Hungary10Latvia10Romania10Finland10
Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, and Canada sit high on mean unresolved age among large country portfolios.
Old unresolved stock is not limited to the absolute-count leaders.
Country missing-results stock
MISSING-RESULTS STOCKRaw missing-results counts by country-linked portfolioUnited States54,667France11,770Canada10,321China8,401United Kingdom8,295Germany8,191Turkey (Türkiye)6,925Spain6,467South Korea5,585Italy5,309
The same large country portfolios driving overdue debt also dominate missing-results stock.
Debt adds duration to that stock story.
Read Across Projects

Across The Series

Each project isolates a different dimension of registry opacity, but the point is the contrast between them, not a single leaderboard.

Industry
Industry project

Industry project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor-Class
Sponsor-class project

Sponsor-class project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Phase
Phase project

Phase project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Structural Missingness
Structural missingness project

Structural missingness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Evidence Visibility
Evidence visibility project

Evidence visibility project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Completion Cohort
Completion cohort project

Completion cohort project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Condition Hiddenness
Condition hiddenness project

Condition hiddenness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor Concentration
Sponsor concentration project

Sponsor concentration project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Rule-Era Reporting
Rule-era reporting project

Rule-era reporting project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Publication Undercount
Publication undercount audit

Publication undercount audit from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Oncology Hiddenness
Oncology hiddenness project

Oncology hiddenness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Cardiovascular Hiddenness
Cardiovascular hiddenness project

Cardiovascular hiddenness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Metabolic Hiddenness
Metabolic hiddenness project

Metabolic hiddenness project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Enrollment-Size
Enrollment-size project

Enrollment-size project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Geography-Scale
Geography-scale project

Geography-scale project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Design-Purpose
Design-purpose project

Design-purpose project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Completion-Delay
Completion-delay project

Completion-delay project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Trial-Architecture
Trial-architecture project

Trial-architecture project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Intervention-Type
Intervention-type project

Intervention-type project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country Reporting
Country reporting project

Country reporting project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Stopped-Trial
Stopped-trial project

Stopped-trial project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Outcome-Density
Outcome-density project

Outcome-density project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Actual-Field
Actual-field project

Actual-field project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Us-Versus-Global
US-versus-global project

US-versus-global project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Modality-Sponsor
Modality-sponsor project

Modality-sponsor project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country-Condition
Country-condition project

Country-condition project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Disease-Geography
Disease-geography project

Disease-geography project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Condition-Sponsor
Condition-sponsor project

Condition-sponsor project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country-Sponsor
Country-sponsor project

Country-sponsor project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Us-Versus-Ex-Us
US-versus-ex-US project

US-versus-ex-US project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Industry-Family
Industry-family project

Industry-family project from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Risk-Adjusted Hiddenness
Risk-adjusted hiddenness

Risk-adjusted hiddenness from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Overdue Results Clock
Overdue results clock

Overdue results clock from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Publication Index Gap
Publication index gap

Publication index gap from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Probable Act/Fdaaa Debt
Probable ACT/FDAAA debt

Probable ACT/FDAAA debt from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor Excess Watchlist
Sponsor excess watchlist

Sponsor excess watchlist from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country Excess Watchlist
Country excess watchlist

Country excess watchlist from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Condition Excess Watchlist
Condition excess watchlist

Condition excess watchlist from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Black-Box Trials
Black-box trials

Black-box trials from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Strict-Proxy Repeaters
Strict-proxy repeaters

Strict-proxy repeaters from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor Ghost Repeaters
Sponsor ghost repeaters

Sponsor ghost repeaters from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Country Ghost Watchlist
Country ghost watchlist

Country ghost watchlist from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Condition Ghost Watchlist
Condition ghost watchlist

Condition ghost watchlist from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Black-Box Sponsor Repeaters
Black-box sponsor repeaters

Black-box sponsor repeaters from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Strict-Core Black-Box
Strict-core black-box

Strict-core black-box from the CT.gov hiddenness series.

Sponsor Debt
CT.gov Sponsor Overdue Debt

Named-sponsor overdue-debt tables showing which portfolios hold the largest unresolved years beyond the two-year mark.

Condition Debt
CT.gov Condition Overdue Debt

Condition-family overdue-debt tables showing which therapeutic portfolios hold the deepest unresolved reporting years.

Narrative Gaps
CT.gov Narrative Gap Repeaters

Named-sponsor narrative-gap tables showing where detailed descriptions and primary outcome descriptions are missing together.

Actual Discipline
CT.gov Actual-Discipline Repeaters

Named-sponsor actual-field tables showing where actual completion and actual enrollment discipline remains weak.