Every year, the SCC publishes its annual case statistics. Whilst a single year's data captures the current state of affairs, it offers limited insight into the trajectory behind the figures, how patterns have developed over time, and in which direction they are heading.

It is with that conviction that the SCC is publishing, for the first time, its extended annual statistics report. The SCC Annual Statistics Report 2025 is a new kind of publication for the institution: broader in scope, deeper in historical context, and designed to serve a different purpose than an annual summary of case numbers. It is a reference resource for practitioners, parties, academics, and anyone with an interest in how international arbitration is developing.

Why a dedicated statistics report?

The SCC has published case statistics for many years. The decision to develop those statistics into a full annual report reflects a recognition that the arbitration community’s engagement with institutional data has grown considerably more sophisticated. Practitioners and parties increasingly want to understand not only how many cases an institution handled in a given year, but what kinds of disputes reached arbitration, from which industries, under which procedural rules, and involving parties from which parts of the world.

Annual case statistics, presented year by year in isolation, cannot fully provide the detailed and valuable insights that a structured, historically contextualised report can.

The SCC maintains an international presence through outreach initiatives, including conferences, seminars, and dialogue with legal practitioners, contributing actively to the development of international arbitration. The annual statistics report is a natural extension of that engagement: a contribution to the community’s shared knowledge base, made available openly and without restriction.

What the report covers

The SCC Annual Statistics Report 2025 covers the full breadth of the SCC’s case activity: caseload trends, procedural frameworks, disputed amounts, sectors and contract types, the geographic distribution of parties and arbitrators, efficiency benchmarks, gender diversity in appointments, arbitrator challenges, and emergency arbitration proceedings. In several of these areas, the report draws on a ten-year or longer historical perspective, allowing the 2025 figures to be read in their proper context rather than in isolation.

This historical dimension is precisely what gives the report its analytical value. A figure that appears significant in a single year may prove to be a temporary fluctuation when set against several years of comparable data. Conversely, a shift that seems modest in any given year may reveal itself as a meaningful structural trend when viewed over a longer time horizon. The sustained growth of expedited arbitrations at the SCC illustrates the point: the proportion of cases administered under the SCC Expedited Arbitration Rules has risen from 29% of all cases in 2022 to 38% in 2025. That trajectory is invisible in a single year’s statistics and only becomes legible when the data is presented over time.

The beginning of an ongoing commitment

This report is the first edition of what the SCC intends to be an annual publication. Its value will grow over time as each successive edition adds to the longitudinal record, making trends clearer and the analysis richer.

The publication of this report also takes place in the context of a broader period of additional transparency into the SCC procedures. In 2026, the SCC will also publish a dedicated report on arbitrator appointments, providing a comprehensive analysis of the 1,107 arbitrator appointments made between January 2020 and December 2024. That report will offer a deeper examination of appointment practices than the annual format allows, and will serve as a companion to the annual statistics report going forward.

Read the report

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