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Consumer prices
January 2023: annual update of the consumer price index (CPI) with reference year 2013 = 100 The consumer price index (CPI) with reference year 2013 = 100, which was introduced...
Enterprises
In the first semester of 2022, the outstanding balance of consumer credit amounted to 27.5 billion euros.
Consumer prices
Consumer price index for January 2023 Inflation decreased from 10.35% to 8.05% in January. The consumer price index increased by 0.12 points or 0.09% this month. Inflation based on the...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 15 January 2023. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Population
Some 116,500 deaths were provisionally recorded in Belgium in 2022. That is about 4,000 more deaths than the previous year, or a 3.7% increase compared to 2021. Compared to a...
Enterprises
During the week from 16 to 22 January included (week 3), the business courts pronounced 179 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 380 job losses. The figures for week 3...
Enterprises
The number of overnight stays in Belgian tourist accommodations was 3,687,263 in October 2022. On a national level, most overnight stays were in hotels (49%) and holiday homes and apartments...
Population
The figures on stillbirths and deaths in children under one year old decreased by 14% in 2020 compared to 2019. The total number of those deaths for the year 2020...
Agriculture & fishery
Animal slaughters : provisional figures for December 68,348 bovine animals were slaughtered in December 2022. The number of slaughtered pigs was 867,578 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted...
Enterprises
In November 2022, the number of VAT-registered enterprises increased by 0.3% compared to October, with only 3,750 more units. This figure is the result of 7,994 new enterprises (first registrations)...