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Agriculture & fishery
The overall index for agricultural products rose by 39.1% between October 2021 and October 2022. At the same time, producer prices for cereals and root crops rose by 32.5% and...
Population
Statbel publishes today the provisional monthly results of the statistics on births. The first provisional figures show that in October 2022, 9,412 babies were born in Belgium: 5,246 in Flanders...
Enterprises
During the week from 28 November to 4 December included (week 48), the business courts pronounced 173 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 373 job losses. The figures for week...
Enterprises
The sector of manufacturing and market services had in 2020 716,313 enterprises , of which 185,407 had at least one employee. These enterprises employed on average 12.9 employees, i.e. a...
Economic indicators
The construction price index has increased by 3.6% in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the previous quarter. Annual inflation amounts to 14.7%.
Mobility
In the second quarter of 2022, inland waterway vessels transported 42.1 million tonnes of goods on Belgian inland waterways. This is a decrease of 1.3% compared to the previous quarter...
Economic indicators
The volume of sales in retail trade, excluding fuels, has decreased by 6.5% in October 2022 compared to the same month last year. In the same period, the sharpest increases...
Work & training
In Belgium, 6% of the population aged 15 to 64 experience long-term severe limitations in their daily activities because of a disability, a disorder or an illness. These limitations for...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 20 November 2022. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Economic indicators
In the third quarter of 2022, the hourly labour cost increased by 6.9% on an annual basis. This is the strongest increase on an annual basis since the start of...