Belgium: manufacture of chemicals number of employees 2021

The number of employees in the chemicals and chemical products manufacturing industry in Belgium increased by 868 employees (+2.09 percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. In total, the number of employees amounted to 42,438 employees in 2021. This increase was preceded by a declining number of employees in this industry.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the manufacturing industry of chemicals and chemical products in Belgium from 2010 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	42,438
2020	41,570
2019	42,754
2018b	45,516
2017	42,265
2016	42,518
2015	43,761
2014	43,095
2013	44,617
2012	44,670
2011	45,650
2010	43,451

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Release date

March 2024

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Belgium

Survey time period

2010 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to code C 20 of CE Rev 2.

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