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Economic indicators
The index of seasonally adjusted wages and salaries in industry amounted to 117.89 in the first quarter of 2022. This represents an increase of 7.7% compared to the first quarter...
Economic indicators
In May 2022, compared to the previous month, the producer price index of industry excluding construction has increased by 1.2%. A split of this figure in energy and the rest...
Economic indicators
In April 2022, the seasonally adjusted industrial turnover index reflected an increase of 1.2% compared to March 2022. The calendar adjusted index reflected an increase of 28.1% compared to April...
Enterprises
During the week from 20 to 26 June included (week 25), the business courts pronounced 263 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 512 job losses. The figures for week 25...
Consumer prices
Consumer price index of June 2022 Inflation in June rises from 8.97% to 9.65%, reaching its highest level since October 1982, when it stood at 9.84%. The consumer price index...
Housing
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, publishes today the figures on building permits until March 2022. Annual evolution The number of permits issued for new residential buildings in the first 3...
Households
With an increase of one and a half million domestic trips and a decrease of about nine million trips abroad in 2021 compared to 2019, it is mainly domestic trips...
Work & training
People born abroad and wanting to be active on the labour market in Belgium indicate that insufficient knowledge of one of the country's languages is the main obstacle to finding...
DataLab
In 2020, Belgian households had on average 1.07 cars, which is the same as in 2017 The municipality with the lowest average number of cars per household is Saint-Josse-ten-Noode with...
Housing
Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, publishes today the house prices in Belgium for the first quarter of 2022. The main results are the following: The Belgian median price for an...