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Business growth Flanders · week 46

+3,697 businesses net in the last 30 days

Business growth in Flanders in figures: for every business that stopped, 6.4 new ones started. According to Statbel, a net +2,353 VAT-registered businesses were added in July 2026 (7,537 new, 5,184 deregistered).

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× All of Belgium
New businesses4,381in the last 30 days
Closures684in the last 30 days
Of which bankruptcies539in the last 30 days

In the last 30 days

Business growth in Flanders by province

West Flanders: +594 netHainaut: +607 netNamur: +225 netLuxembourg: +120 netLiège: +484 netEast Flanders: +820 netAntwerp: +1,051 netLimburg: +503 netBrussels: +858 netFlemish Brabant: +729 netWalloon Brabant: +271 net
Net per province in the last 30 days (new businesses minus closures). Click a province for details.

Monthly

Last 21 months

new businesses above the line, closures below, net on top

+2,423
+2,107
+242
+2,430
+2,273
−1,049
+2,745
+2,016
−213
+3,437
+1,430
−9,678
−511
+2,735
−1,138
+3,085
+2,183
+494
+2,353
+6,195
+425

New businesses Closures · light: Statbel (VAT-registered), dark: the CBE

Yearly

Business growth in Flanders since 2017

+22,677
+22,445
+24,185
+28,544
+8,163
+15,821

▲ 2020: strongest growth (+28,544)▼ 2025: weakest growth (+8,163)

By sector

Which sectors are growing

in the last 30 days

New businesses

Newest businesses

All new businesses
  • 9 NovSole trader8380 Brugge1044.460.267
  • 8 NovDr. Barbara Devocht8540 Deerlijk · Education and care1042.215.708
  • 8 NovSole trader2850 Boom1044.004.961
  • 8 NovSole trader2400 Mol1043.873.220
  • 8 NovSole trader8200 Brugge1044.391.179
  • 8 NovSole trader3290 Diest0804.859.874
  • 8 NovSole trader8970 Poperinge1044.229.942
  • 8 NovSole trader9070 Destelbergen1044.498.869
  • 8 NovSole trader3300 Tienen1043.631.512
  • 8 NovSole trader2590 Berlaar1043.881.633
  • 8 NovSole trader3001 Leuven1044.363.861
  • 8 NovSole trader3650 Dilsen-Stokkem1043.603.895

Closures

Recently stopped

By province and sector

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Questions

Questions about business growth in Flanders

What is net?

The number of new businesses minus the number that stopped. Above zero the number of businesses grows, below zero it shrinks.

What counts as a closure?

Every VAT-registered business the CBE shows as closed: its own decision, a liquidation, a merger or a bankruptcy that was closed. Bankruptcies are only part of the closures; most businesses stop on their own.

Why two sources in the chart?

For the months before our own count we show Statbel: start-ups and deregistrations of VAT-registered businesses. After that we count in the CBE ourselves, the same way: only VAT-registered businesses, excluding associations of co-owners.

Source: CBE (VAT-registered businesses: start-ups on the day of their VAT registration, closures on the day the CBE update showed them, excluding associations of co-owners) and Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), monthly evolution of VAT-registered businesses, open data. Sole traders are shown without a name.