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Agriculture & fishery
In May, the overall agricultural index decreased by 3.4% compared to April. The index for animals and animal products is relatively stable (-0.1%). The vegetable index decreases by 34.6% while...
Population
Olivia is, for the third year in a row, the most popular first name given to baby girls in Belgium. It is still preferred to Emma which, after 16 years...
Population
Traditional male and female first names are still strongly represented in 2022, although the names in the top 3 are steadily declining. Jean ranks first among men. 65,886 men had...
Population
Family names such as Peeters, Janssens and Maes are still the most important ones in the top 10,000 of family names on 01/01/2022 in Belgium. This top 3 is the...
Enterprises
During the week from 27 June to 3 July included (week 26), the business courts pronounced 309 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 630 job losses. The figures for week...
Economic indicators
The volume of sales in retail trade, excluding fuels, has decreased by 1.6% in May 2022 compared to the same month last year. In the same period, the sharpest increases...
Consumer prices
The overall medical index for 2022 amounts to 128.28 for a single room, 120.76 for a double and shared room, 142.73 for outpatient care and 169.91 for dental care.
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 19 June 2022. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Enterprises
Value of industrial production in euros according to the main activity of the unit 2022 (April). Deliveries in value and in quantity according to the NACE, the CPA and the...
Economic indicators
The index of seasonally adjusted of the number of hours worked in industry amounted to 101.33 in first quarter 2022. This represents an increase of 2.3% compared to first quarter...