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The number of overnight stays spent in Belgian tourist accommodations amounted to 2,634,091 in March 2022. At national level, most overnight stays were in hotels (49%), holiday centres and villages...
Agriculture & fishery
54.5 million litres of drinking milk were produced in February 2022. The major part of it (29.4 million litres, or 54%) was semi-skimmed milk. Whole milk represented 35.6% of total...
Population
Statbel has updated its provisional mortality figures until 5 June 2022. We have been able to refine our publication on mortality per day in Belgium and we publish now data...
Population
On 01/01/2022, 66.6% of the Belgian population was Belgian with a Belgian background, 20.6% was Belgian with a foreign background and 12.8% was non-Belgian. This is what emerges from the...
Population
In 2021, 117,914 babies were born in Belgium 60,282 boys and 57,632 girls. This is what emerges from the figures of Statbel, the Belgian statistical office. That is about 4,000...
Population
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Belgian mortality is clearly smaller in 2021 than in 2020, but still seems to be present. This is what emerged from the...
Population
On 1 January 2022, the legal population(1) in Belgium was 11,584,008 inhabitants, according to the official figures of Statbel, the Belgian statistical office. Cloë Ost, statistician in demography at Statbel...
Population
On 1 January 2022, the legal population(1) in Belgium was 11,584,008 inhabitants, according to the official figures of Statbel, the Belgian statistical office. Cloë Ost, statistician in demography at Statbel...
Population
In 2021, the international migration balance for Belgium was 58,118, so more people immigrated to Belgium than emigrated. This is what emerged from the figures of Statbel, the Belgian statistical...
Population
In 2021, 39,275 persons changed their nationality in Belgium. 39,233 persons acquired the Belgian nationality, while 42 were deprived of it. This is what emerged from the figures of Statbel...