Every year, about 25,000 sea-going ships enter Belgium and a few more leave. The total weight of loaded goods is around 131 million tonnes in 2022. The weight of unloaded...
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Consumer prices
Belgium's inflation rate based on the European harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) stood at 2.7% in May compared to 3.3% in April and 4.9% in March. Core inflation (inflation...
Enterprises
During the week from 5 to 11 June included (week 23), the business courts pronounced 206 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 560 job losses. The figures for week 23...
Work & training
Statbel publishes today the transitions on the labour market between the first quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. These results show that people still stay in employment...
Work & training
In the first quarter of 2023, 72.1% of people aged 20-64 in Belgium were employed, compared to 72.3% in the fourth quarter of 2022 and 71.9% in the first quarter...
Work & training
New results of the Labour Force Survey Summary Recently, a new demographic background variable was added to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) that is broader than the traditional variables on...
Work & training
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, publishes today the number of job vacancies in Belgian enterprises in the 1st quarter 2023. The job vacancy rate – the number of job vacancies...
Population
In March 2023, 5,479 persons obtained the Belgian nationality. The main countries of origin of people who acquired Belgian nationality in March are Morocco, Syria, Romania, Turkey and Italy. These...
Population
Statbel publishes today the provisional monthly results of the statistics on births. The first provisional figures show that in April 2023, 8,958 babies were born in Belgium: 5,168 in Flanders...
Economic indicators
The construction price index has increased by 1.8% in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter. Annual inflation amounts to 10.6%.