Consumer price index for February 2020 Inflation decreases from 1.41 % to 1.10 % in February. The consumer price index increases by 0.02 point or 0.02 % this month. Inflation...
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Population
2020: A leap year On 1 January 2019, there were in the total population in Belgium 7,145 people whose birthday falls on 29 February. Proportionally, they are more numerous in...
Economic indicators
In December 2019, the seasonally adjusted production index reflected an increase of 4.4% compared to November 2019. The calendar adjusted production index reflected an increase of 11.8% compared to December...
Agriculture & fishery
71,909 bovine animals were slaughtered in December 2019. The number of slaughtered pigs was 894,716 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 23,919,648 units. In 2018, 26.51 million...
Agriculture & fishery
In 2019, 25.66 million animals were slaughtered on a monthly basis. That is what emerged from the slaughtering figures for 2019 published by Statbel, the Belgian statistical office. In terms...
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Economic indicators
The volume of sales in retail trade, excluding fuels, has slightly increased by 0.2 % in December 2019 compared to the same month last year. In the same period, the...
Agriculture & fishery
57.2 million litres of milk were produced in October 2019. The major part of it (32.4 million litres, or 57 %) was semi-skimmed milk. Whole milk accounted for 36 %...
Economic indicators
In january 2020, 930 businesses in Belgium went bankrupt. These bankruptcies resulted in a loss of 1,718 jobs: 891 full-time employees, 465 part-time employees and 362 salaried employers. The number...
Consumer prices
Belgium's inflation rate based on the European harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) was running at 1.4 % in January compared to 0.9 % in December. Core inflation (inflation without...