January 2024: annual update of the consumer price index (CPI) with reference year 2013 = 100 The consumer price index (CPI) with reference year 2013 = 100, which was introduced...
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Consumer prices
Consumer prices
Consumer price index of January 2024 Inflation in January has gone up from 1.35% to 1.75% The consumer price index this month increases by 0.63 points or 0.49%. Inflation based...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 14 January 2024. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Population
Some 111,300 deaths were provisionally recorded in Belgium in 2023. That is about 5,000 fewer deaths than the previous year, or a 4.3% decrease compared to 2022. Compared to a...
Households
“Have you read books in the last 12 months, including e-books and audio books?” For the SILC survey organised in 2022, Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, asked this question to...
Enterprises
During the week from 15 to 21 January included (week 3), the business courts pronounced 237 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 591 job losses. The figures for week 3...
Enterprises
In November 2023, the number of VAT-registered enterprises increased by 0.3% compared to October with 3,350 more units. This figure is the result of 8,323 new enterprises (first registrations), 938...
Population
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, publishes today the causes of deaths for 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic still caused 10,046 deaths in Belgium in 2021, or 8.9% of all deaths. Therefore...
About Statbel
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, is launching its renewed website STATBEL JUNIOR. This educational website introduces children and young people to the wonderful world of statistics. There are also more...
Agriculture & fishery
Animal slaughters : provisional figures for December 68,231 bovine animals were slaughtered in December 2023. The number of slaughtered pigs was 783,579 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted...