Belgium: Accommodation & food service employees 2021

The number of employees in the accommodation and food service industry in Belgium increased by 4,299 employees (+3.69 percent) in 2021. In total, the number of employees amounted to 120,802 employees in 2021.
According to Eurostat employed persons are all persons aged 15 and over who performed work, even for just one hour per week, for pay, profit or family gain during the reference week or were not at work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of, for instance, illness, holidays, industrial dispute, and education or training.

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Total number of employees in the accommodation and food service activities industry in Belgium from 2010 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	120,802
2020	116,503
2019	142,473
2018b	132,264
2017	128,855
2016	122,738
2015	121,715
2014	124,180
2013	120,342
2012	116,154
2011	118,721
2010	118,449

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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 I of CE Rev 2.

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