Vanuatu Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 15 Vanuatu companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Vanuatu company register data is searchable free online through the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC) under the Companies Act, Cap. 191, showing director and shareholder role history — though shareholder names are not mandatory public disclosure for all entity types, notably International Companies. Beneficial ownership is collected through a Universal UBO Form that all VFSC 'reporting entities' must file and keep in an internal register accessible to the VFSC. It stays with the VFSC rather than open to general search, and no specific ownership percentage is set out in official guidance beyond the general definition of an ultimate owner or controller.
Vanuatu beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Vanuatu
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Vanuatu, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Vanuatu
Vanuatu’s business environment since 2024 has been shaped by two compounding shocks: the national airline Air Vanuatu entered voluntary liquidation in May 2024 owing more than US$99 million to creditors, disrupting tourism and cargo access, and a magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck near Port Vila on 17 December 2024, causing an estimated US$197 million in direct damage — about 17% of 2023 GDP — and killing 14 people. A World Bank-funded reconstruction program and a new 2025 national building code are now driving a multi-year construction rebuild, per World Bank and Vanuatu government reporting.
Citizenship-by-investment has become the government’s single largest revenue source: the program delivered VT11.4 billion (about US$95.5 million) to the treasury in just the first half of 2026, roughly 39% of government revenue in that period, up from 30.4% over the same window in 2025 and 21.8% in 2024, per Vanuatu’s own 2026 Budget Book and RNZ Pacific reporting. That trajectory would clear the prior annual record — 2020’s US$132.6 million, when citizenship supplied 42% of government income — despite Vanuatu losing EU Schengen visa-free access in late 2024, a change that might have been expected to dampen demand rather than coincide with record receipts.
Company registration, international companies, trust and company service providers, and non-bank financial entities are all regulated by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission under the International Companies Act 1993, the legal basis for the offshore company-formation industry built around the country. Vanuatu remains on the EU’s list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, a characterisation its own financial-services industry body disputes given the country’s FATF and OECD Common Reporting Standard clearance — a live, contested point worth checking rather than assuming settled either way.
The underlying real economy remains agriculture-led: kava alone generated VT5.3 billion in exports in 2024, 68.5% of total domestic export value, with beef and coconut products the other major agricultural exports. All land in Vanuatu is leasehold rather than freehold — up to 50 years residential, 75 years commercial — with no restriction on foreign ownership of leasehold property, and the country runs a large structural trade deficit, importing roughly US$484 million in goods against about US$61 million in exports as of 2022, per World Bank trade data.
Vanuatu company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses Vanuatu ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Vanuatu counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Filed accounts cover a limited share of the register in most jurisdictions, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many Vanuatu companies are in Zavia's database?
Zavia holds 15 company records for Vanuatu, of which 15 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Who owns companies in Vanuatu, and is that information public?
Vanuatu company register data is searchable free online through the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (VFSC) under the Companies Act, Cap. 191, showing director and shareholder role history — though shareholder names are not mandatory public disclosure for all entity types, notably International Companies. Beneficial ownership is collected through a Universal UBO Form that all VFSC 'reporting entities' must file and keep in an internal register accessible to the VFSC. It stays with the VFSC rather than open to general search, and no specific ownership percentage is set out in official guidance beyond the general definition of an ultimate owner or controller.
Can I see a Vanuatu company's shareholders and corporate structure on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 0 shareholder records for Vanuatu companies, with 67 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Does Zavia offer an API for Vanuatu company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Vanuatu, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Is there a guide to verifying beneficial ownership in Vanuatu?
Zavia's Vanuatu beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.