Non-financial business economy only, excluding agricultural sector and non-market service sectors
Supplementary notes
The source does not specify whether the figures provided are in FTE or not. Instead it mentions the "number of persons employed", and not whether the figures include full-time and/or part-time employment.
Belgian SMEs employed over * people in 2023, a figure that had increased especially in companies with **** employees or less. In comparison, the number of people in Belgium who were employed in 2018 was nearly **. One should note, however, that the figures provided here do not include SMEs in finance or agriculture. Despite the influence of SMEs in the country's employment, Belgium faced an unemployment rate of*** percent in 2020.
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