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Business growth Belgium · week 46

+6,201 businesses net in the last 30 days

Business growth in Belgium in figures: for every business that stopped, 6.5 new ones started. According to Statbel, a net +5,004 VAT-registered businesses were added in July 2026 (13,564 new, 8,560 deregistered).

See the new businesses Go to bankruptcies
New businesses7,326in the last 30 days
Closures1,125in the last 30 days
Of which bankruptcies1,056in the last 30 days

In the last 30 days

Business growth in Belgium by province

West Flanders: +583 netHainaut: +558 netNamur: +199 netLuxembourg: +126 netLiège: +444 netEast Flanders: +780 netAntwerp: +1,016 netLimburg: +502 netBrussels: +821 netFlemish Brabant: +778 netWalloon Brabant: +259 net
Net per province in the last 30 days (new businesses minus closures). Click a province for details.

Monthly

Last 22 months

new businesses above the line, closures below, net on top

−6,965
+3,844
+3,209
+40
+3,216
+2,971
−2,143
+4,304
+2,682
−832
+7,793
+3,111
−13,875
+226
+4,602
−2,183
+6,511
+3,562
+1,101
+5,004
+10,966
+1,860

New businesses Closures · light: Statbel (VAT-registered), dark: the CBE

Yearly

Business growth in Belgium since 2017

+36,080
+34,303
+34,309
+40,137
+43,839
+48,796
+25,659
+18,757
+14,320
+31,649

▲ 2022: strongest growth (+48,796)▼ 2025: weakest growth (+14,320)

By sector

Which sectors are growing

in the last 30 days

New businesses

Newest businesses

All new businesses

Closures

Recently stopped

By province and sector

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FlandersWalloniaBrusselsAntwerpLimburgEast FlandersFlemish BrabantWest FlandersHainautLiègeLuxembourgNamurWalloon Brabant

AgricultureIndustryEnergy and waterConstructionTradeTransportHospitalityICT and mediaFinanceReal estateConsulting and professionsSupport servicesEducation and careOther services

Questions

Questions about business growth in Belgium

What is net?

The number of new businesses minus the number that stopped. Above zero the number of businesses grows, below zero it shrinks.

What counts as a closure?

Every VAT-registered business the CBE shows as closed: its own decision, a liquidation, a merger or a bankruptcy that was closed. Bankruptcies are only part of the closures; most businesses stop on their own.

Why two sources in the chart?

For the months before our own count we show Statbel: start-ups and deregistrations of VAT-registered businesses. After that we count in the CBE ourselves, the same way: only VAT-registered businesses, excluding associations of co-owners.

Source: CBE (VAT-registered businesses: start-ups on the day of their VAT registration, closures on the day the CBE update showed them, excluding associations of co-owners) and Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), monthly evolution of VAT-registered businesses, open data. Sole traders are shown without a name.