Belgium

Economic Competitiveness Rating - Belgium Compared to Continent

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Switzerland	5.62
Denmark	5.55
Sweden	5.54
Germany	5.51
Finland	5.49
UK	5.41
Netherlands	5.40
Austria	5.23
Norway	5.20
France	5.18
Belgium	5.10
Ireland	5.03
Iceland	5.02
Luxembourg	4.88
Estonia	4.74
Spain	4.66
Czech Rep.	4.58
Lithuania	4.49
Slovenia	4.48
Portugal	4.48
Slovak Rep.	4.45
Latvia	4.41
Italy	4.36
Hungary	4.35
Poland	4.28
Turkey	4.25
Cyprus	4.23
Malta	4.21
Croatia	4.20
Russia	4.19
Greece	4.08
Ukraine	3.98
Romania	3.97
Bulgaria	3.93
Montenegro	3.91
Serbia	3.78
Macedonia	3.73
Moldova	3.64
Bosnia & H.	3.55
Albania	3.48

 

 

Belgium: Economic growth competiveness index

The Growth Competitiveness Index (GCI), aims to quantify the quality of the macroeconomic environment, the state of a country’s public institutions, and its level of technological readiness.

Higher competitiveness scores are more desirable:

• Very High – 5.51 to 7
• High – 4.51 to 5.50
• Moderate – 3.51 to 4.50
• Low - 3.01 to 3.50
• Very Low – 0 to 3.00

Source: World Economic Forum

 

Belgium generates house price and rents statistics of acceptable quality. Statistics Belgium has an annual residential property price index for flats, and also average selling prices. The National Bank of Belgium’s Belgostat has rentals, under “consumer price indices”, as well as all the usual general economics statistics.