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Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 12 June 2022. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Housing
The observed annual inflation rate for house prices amounts to 6.4 % in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 6.0 % in the previous quarter.[1] The average inflation rate...
Agriculture & fishery
Animal slaughters : provisional figures for May 64,026 bovine animals were slaughtered in May 2022. The number of slaughtered pigs was 902,111 animals, and the number of slaughtered chickens amounted...
Enterprises
During the week from 13 to 19 June included (week 24), the business courts pronounced 191 bankruptcies, resulting in a total of 498 job losses. The figures for week 24...
Work & training
Figures from the first quarter of 2022 on the labour market transitions show that highly-skilled people are doing well on the labour market: they mostly stay at work (98.3%), find...
Households
More than 70% of Belgians (71.3%) indicate in the first quarter of 2022 that their total disposable household income remained more or less the same in the past month compared...
Work & training
Also more employed people with a second job In the first quarter of 2022, 71.9% of people aged 20-64 in Belgium were employed, compared to 71.6% in the fourth quarter...
Enterprises
The number of VAT-registered enterprises increased by 6,037 units in April 2022 compared to March. That is 12,011 new enterprises (first registrations), 1,529 re-registrations and 7,503 de-registrations. The main sectors...
Mobility
There were 34,640 road traffic accidents in 2021, bringing the total of casualties to 42,566, including 38,952 slightly injured, 3,098 seriously injured and 516 persons who died within 30 days...
Economic indicators
In the first quarter of 2022, output prices in the services sector increased compared to the same quarter of the previous year (+4.3%). The sectors with the largest upward effect...