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Consumer prices
Consumer price index of December 2021 Inflation increases from 5.64% to 5.71% in December, which is the highest level since July 2008, when it was 5.90%. The consumer price index...
Economic indicators
In October 2021, the seasonally adjusted industrial turnover index reflected an increase of 5.3% compared to September 2021. The calendar adjusted index reflected an increase of 23.6% compared to October...
Enterprises
The number of VAT-registered enterprises increased by 7,926 units in October. That is 12,514 new enterprises, 1,512 re-registrations and 6,100 de-registrations. The highest relative increases can be found in the...
Agriculture & fishery
67,633 bovine animals were slaughtered in November 2021. The number of slaughtered pigs was 1,008,877 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 23,945,251 units. The results for November...
Enterprises
During the week from 13 to 19 December included (week 50), the business courts pronounced 137 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 194 job losses. So the figures for week...
Enterprises
The number of overnight stays in Belgian tourist accommodations was 3,153,412 in September 2021. On a national level, most overnight stays were in holiday homes (23%) and hotels (42%). Compared...
Housing
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, publishes today the house prices for the third quarter of 2021 in Belgium, based on the deeds of sale registered by the FPS Finances. The...
Agriculture & fishery
51.1 million litres of milk were produced in August 2021. The major part of it (28.9 million litres, or 56.5%) was semi-skimmed milk. Whole milk accounted for 36.6% of the...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 5 December 2021*. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Enterprises
In 2019, there were just over 2.487 so-called high-growth enterprises in the sector of manufacturing and market services[1]. A high-growth enterprise is an enterprise with more than 10 employees and...