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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)...
Agriculture & fishery
50.8 million litres of drinking milk were produced in September 2022. The major part of it (28.5 million litres, or 56.1%) was semi-skimmed milk. Whole milk represented 34.5% of total...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 8 January 2023. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Enterprises
In 2022, 9,265 enterprises were declared bankrupt in Belgium. Although this is a 42% increase compared to 2021 (6,533 bankruptcies), this is also a 13% decrease compared to 2019 (10,598...
Enterprises
During the week from 9 to 15 January included (week 2), the business courts pronounced 142 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 2,350 job losses. This particularly high number of...
DataLab
According to the provisional results for the monthly indicators based on the Labour Force Survey of Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 amounted to...
Consumer prices
Belgium's inflation rate based on the European harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) stood at 10.2% in December compared to 10.5% in November and 13.1% in October. Core inflation (inflation...