Belgium
General information
Capital: Brussel
Currency unit: Euro
Area: 30,689 km²
Total population: 11,858,600
GDP (millions of US dollars): 671,370
GDP per capita, PPP (current international US dollars): 73,515
Production
Agriculture (% of GDP): 0.9 %
Manufacture (% of GDP): 11.8 %
Industry excluding manufacture (% of GDP): 7.6 %
Services (% of GDP): 79.7 %
Trade
Total exports (millions of US dollars): 532,002
Total imports (millions of US dollars): 534,610
Main exported goods (% of total exports):
Petroleum oils or bituminous minerals (8.9 %)
Medicinal and pharmaceutical products (8.0 %)
Medicaments (incl. veterinary medicaments) (5.9 %)
Natural gas, whether or not liquefied (5.6 %)
Motor vehicles for the transport of persons (4.7 %)
National Attractiveness and Sustainability
Database under construction
| Belgium | ||
|---|---|---|
| National Attractiveness and Sustainability | - |
Price competitiveness
This section brings together various indicators related to the price dimension of countries’ competitiveness. These indicators include both measures of external price competitiveness (the price ratio between domestic and foreign goods in international markets) and internal price competitiveness (the price ratio between tradable and non-tradable domestic goods). All these indices are calculated for each country relative to a base year and constructed such that an increase in the index corresponds to a decline in the country’s price competitiveness.
| Belgium | ||
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| Price competitiveness | - | |
| Nominal Effective Exchange Rate Belgium: 112 | 112 | |
| Real Effective Exchange Rate Belgium: 110 | 110 | |
| Internal Real Exchange Rate Belgium: 106 | 106 |