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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...
Enterprises
During the week from 11 to 17 March included (week 11), the business courts pronounced 202 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 443 job losses. The figures for week 11...
Economic indicators
In the fourth quarter of 2023, output prices in the services sector increased compared to the same quarter of the previous year (2.1%). The sectors with the largest downward effect...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 3 March 2024. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Enterprises
In February 2024, 994 bankruptcies were registered by the business courts. This is a 5.5% increase compared to January 2024 (942). Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, also publishes a detailed...
Economic indicators
In January 2024, the seasonally adjusted production index in the construction sector reflected a decrease of 3.4% compared to December 2023. The calendar adjusted production index reflected a decrease of...