Belgium: electricity & gas sector employment 2021

The number of employees in the electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply industry in Belgium increased by 415 employees (+2.01 percent) in 2021. In total, the number of employees amounted to 21,056 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 electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply sector in Belgium from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	21,056
2020	20,641
2019	21,331
2018b	30,391
2017	18,224
2016	17,648
2015	19,550
2014	20,166
2013	19,510
2012	18,007

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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 D of CE Rev 2.

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