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Agriculture & fishery
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, has drawn up a supply balance for the main animal species for the years 2010 to 2018. This supply balance shows a difference in the...
Enterprises
In 2019, 24.6 % of enterprises with at least 10 employees have received orders via a website or apps. Among them, 98 % have received orders from Belgium, 50 %...
Consumer prices
Belgium's inflation rate based on the European harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) was running at 0.4 % in November compared to 0.2 % in October. Core inflation (inflation without...
Economic indicators
In October 2019, the seasonally adjusted production index in the construction sector reflected a decrease of 0.3% compared to September 2019. The calendar adjusted production index reflected a decrease of...
Agriculture & fishery
The first estimates of farmers’ incomes for the year 2019 made by Statbel1, the Belgian statistical office, have been submitted to the European Commission (Eurostat). After a year 2018 that...
Economic indicators
The total hourly labour cost increases by 2.6 % on an annual basis. The sharpest increase of the labour cost is noted in the NACE section J (information and communication)...
Work & training
In 2017, a full-time employee in Belgium earned a gross average salary of 3,558 euros per month, i.e. a 15 % increase compared to 2010 (gross salary of 3,103 euros...
Environment
After years of declining trend, there has been these past four years a stabilisation of the production of municipal waste to 413 kg/inhabitant in 2018. 35 % of the 4,698,489...
Agriculture & fishery
In October 2019, some trends are confirmed. The producer price index for potatoes remains half as low as last year at this time. However, apple prices remain stable compared to...
Work & training
Job vacancy figures in Belgium in the third quarter 2019 In the third quarter of 2019, Belgian enterprises offered 140,900 job vacancies compared to 139,000 in the second quarter of...