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Enterprises
During the week from 12 to 18 February included (week 7), the business courts pronounced 242 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 717 job losses. The figures for week 7...
Agriculture & fishery
54.7 million litres of drinking milk were produced in October 2023. The major part of it (28.9 million litres, or 53%) was semi-skimmed milk. Whole milk represented 37.3% of total...
EU2024
The second meeting of the Council Working Party on Statistics under the Belgian Presidency took place on Wednesday 31 January 2024. The meeting was chaired by Mr Olivier Goddeeris and...
Consumer prices
Belgium's inflation rate based on the European harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) was running at 1.5% in January compared to 0.5% in December and -0.8% in November. Core inflation...
Enterprises
In January 2024, 942 bankruptcies were registered by the business courts. This is a 2.7% increase compared to December 2023 (917). Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, also publishes a detailed...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 4 February 2024. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
DataLab
According to the provisional results for the monthly indicators based on the Labour Force Survey of Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 amounted to...
Economic indicators
In December 2023, the seasonally adjusted production index in the construction sector reflected an increase of 3.2% compared to November 2023. The calendar adjusted production index reflected an increase of...
Households
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, publishes today the figures from its survey on holidays and travels for the 3rd quarter of 2023. During this period, 8,705,000 trips were made in...
Enterprises
During the week from 5 to 11 February included (week 6), the business courts pronounced 203 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 473 job losses. So the figures for week...