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Consumer prices
Belgium's inflation rate based on the European harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) was running at 6.6% in December compared to 7.1% in November. Core inflation (inflation without energy and...
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The provisional results for the monthly indicators based on the Labour Force Survey of Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, show a decrease in both employment and unemployment rates. The employment...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 2 January 2022 We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Economic indicators
In November 2021, the seasonally adjusted production index in the construction sector reflected a decrease of 3.7% compared to October 2021. The calendar adjusted production index reflected a decrease of...
Population
In October 2021, 3,641 persons obtained the Belgian nationality. The main countries of origin of people who acquired Belgian nationality in October are Morocco, Syria, Romania, Iraq and Italy. These...
Population
Statbel publishes today the provisional monthly results of the statistics on births. The first provisional figures show that in November 2021, 9,280 babies were born in Belgium: 5,186 in Flanders...
Enterprises
During the week from 3 to 9 January included (week 1), the business courts pronounced 109 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 153 job losses. The number of bankruptcies shows...
Economic indicators
In the third quarter of 2021, output prices in the services sector increased compared to the same quarter of the previous year (+2.2%). The sectors with the largest upward effect...
Economic indicators
In November 2021 , compared to the previous month, the producer price index of industry excluding construction has increased by 2,9%. A split of this figure in energy and the...
Agriculture & fishery
In November 2021, the trends of the beginning of the season are confirmed for cereals, whose index has increased by 14.4% compared to October. Compared to November 2020, the increase...