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Work & training
72.1% of people aged 20-64 have a job, compared to 71.9% in 2022. This is what emerged from the annual results of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) published by Statbel...
Work & training
Transitions Between 2022 and 2023, 94.5% of employed people remained in work, 1.6% became unemployed and 4.0% became inactive. Employed people who remain in work, do not all stay in...
Housing
The observed annual inflation rate for house prices amounts to 3.4% in the fourth quarter of 2023, which is an increase compared to the rate of 0.9% observed in the...
Agriculture & fishery
From January 2024 onwards, agricultural indices will be expressed with reference year 2020=100. The overall agricultural producer price index decreased by 5.2% in January 2024 compared to January 2023. The...
Enterprises
In January 2024, the number of VAT-registered enterprises increased by 0.3% compared to December with 2,937 more units. This figure is the result of 14,581 new enterprises (first registrations), 1,879...
Agriculture & fishery
Animal slaughters : provisional figures for February 62,439 bovine animals were slaughtered in February 2024. The number of slaughtered pigs was 790,657 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 10 March 2024. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Households
Since the third quarter of 2021, Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, asks every quarter some 5,000 Belgians aged 16 to 74 about their personal well-being and living conditions. In the...
Enterprises
The number of overnight stays spent in Belgian tourist accommodations amounted to 2.820.936 in December 2023. This allows us to draw up the first provisional results of 2023: over the...
Agriculture & fishery
51.6 million litres of drinking milk were produced in November 2023. The major part of it (29.8 million litres, or 57.8%) was semi-skimmed milk. Whole milk represented 33.6% of total...