Belgium: water supply & waste management employees 2021

The number of employees in the water supply (sewerage, waste management, and remediation activities) industry in Belgium increased by 826 employees (+3.47 percent) since the previous year. In total, the number of employees amounted to 24,661 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 water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities industry in Belgium from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	24,661
2020	23,835
2019	23,808
2018b	23,626
2017	23,416
2016	20,960
2015	22,425
2014	21,442
2013	26,244
2012	25,731

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Release date

March 2024

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Belgium

Survey time period

2012 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 E of CE Rev 2.

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