Brussels-Capital Region – BE1

EU regions: Belgium > Brussels-Capital Region

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2023	15.6
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2023	19.09
percentage of part time workers, men	2023	11.93
percentage of part time workers, women	2023	27.87
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2023	81.55
gender gap in unemployment rate	2023	108.82
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	49.4
NEET	2023	8.6
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2022	196
Employment
employment rate	2023	61
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	34.3

More on wikipedia wikidata Q240 on OpenStreetMap Brussels-Capital Region slovensky: BE1

Subregions: Brussels-Capital Region, Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2023	10.7
youth unemployment rate	2023	25.7
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2023	5
share of long term unemployed	2023	47.5

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2023	1 253 178
population density	2022	7660
old-age dependency ratio	2023	18.8

Employment by sectors, Brussels-Capital Region

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
B-E	27	5%	F	32.6	6%
G-I	104.7	20%	J	26.7	5%
K	17.1	3%	L	5.5	1%
M_N	101.8	19%	O-Q	131	25%
R-U	80.1	15%	TOTAL	527.5	100%

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

From Wikipedia:

Brussels (French: Bruxelles [bʁysɛl] (listen) or [bʁyksɛl]; Dutch: Brussel [ˈbrʏsəl] (listen)), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (in which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated and the richest region in Belgium in terms of GDP per capita. It covers 161 km² (62 sq mi), a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of 1.2 million. The metropolitan area of Brussels counts over 2.1 million people, which makes it the largest in Belgium. It is also part of a large conurbation extending towards Ghent, Antwerp, Leuven and Walloon Brabant, home to over 5 million people.

Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and the home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the de facto capital of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions, including its administrative-legislative, executive-political, and legislative branches (though the judicial branch is located in Luxembourg, and the European Parliament meets for a minority of the year in Strasbourg) and its name is sometimes used metonymically to describe the EU and its institutions. The secretariat of the Benelux and headquarters of NATO are also located in Brussels. As the economic capital of Belgium and one of the top financial centres of Western Europe with Euronext Brussels, it is classified as an Alpha global city.

Other: Belgium, Walloon Region, Brussels-Capital Region, Flemish Region

Neighbours: Flemish Region

Subregions: Brussels-Capital Region, Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Brussels-Capital Region – BE1, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PBE1, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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