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Enterprises
In October 2022, the number of VAT-registered enterprises increased by 0.6% compared to September, with only 7,375 more units. This figure is the result of 12,855 new enterprises (first registrations)...
Enterprises
During the week from 12 to 18 December included (week 50), the business courts pronounced 158 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 480 job losses. The figures for week 50...
Economic indicators
The index of seasonally adjusted of the number of hours worked in industry amounted to 102.45 in third quarter 2022. This represents an increase of 2.5% compared to third quarter...
Economic indicators
The index of seasonally adjusted wages and salaries in industry amounted to 123.48 in the third quarter of 2022. This represents an increase of 10.3% compared to the third quarter...
Economic indicators
In the third quarter of 2022, output prices in the service sector increased compared to the same quarter of the previous year (+7.3%). The sectors with the largest upward effect...
Housing
The observed annual inflation rate for house prices amounts to 5.4% in the third quarter of 2022 compared to 5.9% in the previous quarter [1]. The average inflation rate for...
Agriculture & fishery
50 million litres of drinking milk were produced in August 2022. The major part of it (27.2 million litres, or 54.5%) was semi-skimmed milk. Whole milk represented 32.9% of total...
Households
With 6.6/10, the financial satisfaction of Belgians is weakening. While this score, given during the months of July to September, seems rather satisfactory, it stood at 7/10 a year earlier...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 4 December 2022. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Enterprises
In November 2022, 774 bankruptcies were registered by the business courts. This is a decrease of 15.9% compared to October 2022. Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, also publishes a detailed...