Belgium – BE

EU regions: Belgium

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2021	2.23
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2021	0.539
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	11.1
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	12.3
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	3.4
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2024q1	8.8
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2024q1	38.6
percentage of workers usually working from home	2023	14.6
percentage of part time workers	2023	22.86
percentage of part time workers, men	2023	10.02
percentage of part time workers, women	2023	37.27
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP	2024q1	47.6
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2020	42.4
monthly minimum wage in €	2024q1	1994.18
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2024q1	1728.57
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2023	30 862
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2022	5
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2023	53.1
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2022	97.54
gender gap in employment rate	2024q1	90.1
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024q1	78.12
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	25.3
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2024q1	13.8
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2024q1	5.8
NEET	2023	6.7
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	118
HICP inflation	May 2024	4.9
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2023	2
Employment
employment rate	2024q1	66.2
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	18.9
job vacancies rate	2011q4	1.6

More on wikipedia wikidata Q31 on OpenStreetMap Belgium slovensky: BE

Subregions: Brussels-Capital Region, Flemish Region, Walloon Region

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2023	5.6
youth unemployment rate	2024q1	16
unemployment rate of low educated people	2024q1	13.1
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024q1	2.2
share of long term unemployed	2024q1	35.9

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Belgium

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 164.3 E: 68.8; U: 21.1; I: 74.4	P: 677.6 E: 363.1; U: 53.6; I: 260.9	P: 552.1 E: 406.1; U: 21.6; I: 124.4
Y30-39	P: 210.5 E: 110.4; U: 23.8; I: 76.3	P: 515.2 E: 421.9; U: 24.4; I: 68.9	P: 792.5 E: 726.6; U: 22.2; I: 43.7
Y40-49	P: 222.4 E: 128.9; U: 15.9; I: 77.6	P: 551.4 E: 451.0; U: 18.0; I: 82.4	P: 727.2 E: 669.9; U: 16.2; I: 41.1
Y50-59	P: 330.5 E: 175.4; U: 11.8; I: 143.3	P: 603.4 E: 459.4; U: 14.6; I: 129.4	P: 644.8 E: 574.7; U: 14.9; I: 55.2
Y60-69	P: 445.2 E: 52.4; U: 2.9; I: 389.9	P: 500.6 E: 112.2; U: 5.9; I: 382.5	P: 448.3 E: 176.3; U: 6.4; I: 265.6

Note: in thousands in 2022, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of ecnomically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	1.1742796e+07
population density	2022	383.6
old-age dependency ratio	2023	30.8
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2024q1	3.4
aggregate replacement ratio	2023	0.48
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2023	0.47
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2022	33.3
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2022	20.1

Employment by sectors, Belgium

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	54.8	1 %	B-E	642.6	13 %
F	333.8	7 %	G-I	1073.2	21 %
J	203.8	4 %	K	151.5	3 %
L	40.3	1 %	M_N	636.6	13 %
O-Q	1631.9	32 %	R-U	259.7	5 %
TOTAL	5028.4	100 %

Data for the period year 2023. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia: Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a sovereign state in Western Europe. It is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of 30,688 km² (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.4 million. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi and Liège.

Belgium is a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional and linguistic grounds. It is divided into three highly autonomous regions: Flanders in the north, Wallonia in the south, and the Brussels-Capital Region. Brussels is the smallest and most densely populated region, as well as the richest region in terms of GDP per capita.

Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups or communities: the Dutch-speaking, mostly Flemish Community, which constitutes about 59 percent of the population, and the French-speaking Community, which comprises about 40 percent of all Belgians. A small German-speaking Community, numbering around one percent, exists in the East Cantons.

Other: Bulgaria, Belgium

Neighbours: France, Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg

Subregions: Brussels-Capital Region, Flemish Region, Walloon Region

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Belgium – BE, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PBE, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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