Belgium: number of unemployed people, by region 2021

From 2008 to 2021, the number of unemployed people in Belgium varied from region to another. Over this period, unemployment fluctuated in Belgium. In 2021, the number of unemployed people in the Brussels-Capital Region increased to 67.5 thousand people. In the same year, the number of unemployed people increased to 135.7 thousand in the Walloon Region and to 119.7 thousand in Flanders.

Number of unemployed people in Belgium from 2008 to 2021, by region

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Release date

March 2022

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Region

Belgium

Survey time period

2008 to 2021

Supplementary notes

* Statistics Belgium defines an unemployed person according to the criteria of the International Labour Organization. An employed person is a person aged 15 years or older who during the reference week was without a job, a person who was available for a job and started work within 2 weeks after the reference week, or a person who was actively looking for a job during the previous 4 weeks, including the reference week.

Belgium is divided into 3 regions: the Flemish Region, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region. Each region has its own Regional Parliament and a Regional Government.

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