Brussels-Capital Region – BE1

EU regions: Belgium > Brussels-Capital Region

Indicator	Period	Value
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	17.5
Part time jobs and flexible employment
percentage of part time workers	2024	19.35
percentage of part time workers, men	2024	12.89
percentage of part time workers, women	2024	27.21
Gender differences
gender gap in employment rate	2024	81.66
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024	95
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2024	34.4
NEET	2024	9
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	191
Employment
employment rate	2024	58.9
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	2024	11.9
youth unemployment rate	2024	23.6
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024	5.8
share of long term unemployed	2024	49.1

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	1 264 371
population density	2023	7770.2
old-age dependency ratio	2024	18.7

Employment by sectors, Brussels-Capital Region

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
B-E	24.8	5%	F	29.4	6%
G-I	109.2	21%	J	28.7	6%
K	16.7	3%	L	3	1%
M_N	92.2	18%	O-Q	131.9	26%
R-U	77.5	15%	TOTAL	514.1	100%

Data for the period year 2024. 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, Brussels-Capital Region, Wallonia, 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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