Belgium - BE

EU regions: Belgium

indicator	period	value
long term unemployment	2021q3	2.6
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2019	118
unemployment rate	2021q3	6.6
employment rate	2021q3	66.4
number of inhabitants	2020	11 522 440
population density	2019	377.3
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2019	1.993
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2019	0.574
working hours on full time job	2021q3	38.5
percentage of workers usually working from home	2020	17.4
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2020	11.3
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2021q3	9.5
percentage of part time workers	2021q3	23.77
percentage of part time workers, men	2021q3	9.22
percentage of part time workers, women	2021q3	39.89
gender pay gap	2019	5.8
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2020	52.9
life long learning participation	2020	7.4
youth unemployment rate	2020	15.3
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2021q3	26.1
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2021q3	14.9
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2021q3	21.9
NEET	2021q3	9.7
unemployment rate of low educated people	2021q3	14.3
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2021q3	5.1
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	18.9
aggregate replacement ratio	2020	0.46
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2020	0.46
old-age dependency ratio	2020	29.9
gender gap in employment rate	2021q3	90.94
gender gap in unemployment rate	2021q3	85.71
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2020	1.9
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2019	42.5
monthly minimum wage in €	2021q3	1625.72
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2021q3	1411.29
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2020	26 512

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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, Wallonia

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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