Belgium - BE

EU regions: Belgium

indicator	period	value
long term unemployment	2021q4	2
share of long term unemployed	2021q4	46.5
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2020	119
unemployment rate	2021q4	5.8
employment rate	2021q4	66.2
number of inhabitants	2021	11 554 767
population density	2019	377.3
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2020	2.982
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2020	0.586
working hours on full time job	2021q4	37.5
percentage of workers usually working from home	2021	26.4
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2021	11.5
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2021q4	8.9
percentage of part time workers	2021q4	23.45
percentage of part time workers, men	2021q4	9.39
percentage of part time workers, women	2021q4	38.94
gender pay gap	2020	5.3
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2021	54.3
life long learning participation	2021	10.2
youth unemployment rate	2021q4	15.4
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2021q4	28
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2021q4	14.4
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2021q4	8
NEET	2021q4	9.9
unemployment rate of low educated people	2021q4	13.1
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2021q4	3.7
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	18.9
aggregate replacement ratio	2021	0.46
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2021	0.45
old-age dependency ratio	2021	30.2
gender gap in employment rate	2021q4	91.61
gender gap in unemployment rate	2021q4	65.22
share of salaries on GDP	2022q1	45.9
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2021	1.7
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2019	42.5
monthly minimum wage in €	2022q1	1658.23
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2022q1	1455.6
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2021	27 627

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

age group	low education	middle education	high education
Y20-29	P: 194.7 E: 73.7; U: 21.1; I: 99.9	P: 649.7 E: 342.9; U: 41.5; I: 265.3	P: 552.6 E: 395.7; U: 27.4; I: 129.5
Y30-39	P: 223.4 E: 114.2; U: 20.6; I: 88.6	P: 542.5 E: 443.0; U: 23.2; I: 76.3	P: 723.7 E: 655.1; U: 20.8; I: 47.8
Y40-49	P: 255.4 E: 150.5; U: 16.9; I: 88.0	P: 558.2 E: 459.3; U: 19.9; I: 79.0	P: 684.6 E: 628.2; U: 17.0; I: 39.4
Y50-59	P: 384.8 E: 217.8; U: 16.9; I: 150.1	P: 625.3 E: 462.0; U: 18.8; I: 144.5	P: 572.0 E: 495.5; U: 13.8; I: 62.7
Y60-69	P: 502.8 E: 52.1; U: 3.2; I: 447.5	P: 467.8 E: 89.4; U: 4.3; I: 374.1	P: 377.9 E: 143.6; U: 3.5; I: 230.8

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

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: EU regions - Belgium - BE, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/eu-regions/BE

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