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Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 29 January 2023. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Population
In November 2022, 3,926 persons obtained the Belgian nationality. The main countries of origin of people who acquired Belgian nationality in November sont Morocco, Syria, Romania, Poland and Afghanistan. These...
Population
Some 113,800 births were provisionally recorded in Belgium in 2022. That is some 2,800 fewer births than in the period 2018-2021, or a 2.4% decrease. Regional differences are significant: the...
Population
Statbel publishes today the provisional monthly results of the statistics on births. The first provisional figures show that in December 2022, 8.942 babies were born in Belgium: 4.891 in Flanders...
Agriculture & fishery
The year 2022 closed with a 33.1% increase in the overall agricultural index in December compared to December 2021. This increase concerns both plant and livestock products. The fruit index...
Enterprises
During the week from 30 January to 5 February included (week 5), the business courts pronounced 167 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 464 job losses. The figures for week...
Economic indicators
The volume of sales in retail trade, excluding fuels, has decreased by 6.2% in December 2022 compared to the same month last year. In the same period, the sharpest increases...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 22 January 2023. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Mobility
In 2022, 374,597 passenger cars were registered in Belgium, or 4.6% fewer than in 2021. In 2019, 557,970 new cars were put into service, which means that the market has...
Households
9.5% of the Belgian population is materially and socially deprived. This corresponds to 1,083,000 persons. In the Brussels-Capital Region, this is 17.5% of the population, in the Walloon Region 14.4%...