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One EU2020 objective is to reduce the percentage of young people aged 15-24 who are not in education, employment or training (NEET indicator) to maximum 8.2 %. This percentage amounts...

The most common occupations in Belgium are general office clerks, shop salespersons, domestic cleaners and helpers, cleaners and helpers in offices, hotels and other establishments, and secondary education teachers. Heavy-truck...

4.3 % of the working population has a second job. This percentage is the same for men and women. More specifically, 111,000 men and 97,000 women have a second job...

43.6 % of employed women work part-time, while 11.8 % of men don’t work full-time. 30 years ago (in 1989), 11.6 % of employees worked part-time. At that time, 28...

New results of the Labour Force Survey in Belgium Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, publishes today the results of the Labour Force Survey for 2019, a period where there was...

The observed annual inflation rate for house prices amounts to 4.8 % in the fourth quarter of 2019 compared to 4.5 % in the previous quarter.[1] The average inflation amounts...

In January 2020, the seasonally adjusted production index reflected a decrease of 3.8% compared to December 2019. The calendar adjusted production index reflected an increase of 0.5% compared to January...

In february 2020, 865 businesses in Belgium went bankrupt. These bankruptcies resulted in a loss of 1,953 jobs: 1,101 full-time employees, 520 part-time employees and 332 salaried employers. The number...

70,143 bovine animals were slaughtered in January 2020. The number of slaughtered pigs was 985,404 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted to 25,056,487 units. In 2019, 25.66 million...

The volume of sales in retail trade, excluding fuels, has increased by 1.6 % in January 2020 compared to the same month last year. In the same period, the sharpest...