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Belgium: Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change

Economic Freedom 5 Years

Freedom Rating 5 Yr - Belgium Compared to Continent

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Luxembourg	-5.93%
Poland	-3.77%
Italy	-2.85%
Cyprus	-2.75%
Moldova	-2.65%
Russia	-1.79%
Portugal	-0.99%
Ukraine	-0.04%
Estonia	0.05%
Sweden	0.53%
Switzerland	0.91%
Spain	1.27%
Finland	1.54%
Czech Rep.	1.56%
Lithuania	1.65%
Macedonia	1.72%
Ireland	1.76%
Germany	2.03%
Greece	2.11%
Croatia	2.49%
Norway	2.60%
UK	2.67%
Netherlands	2.94%
Austria	3.52%
Latvia	3.56%
Iceland	4.10%
Slovenia	4.93%
Belgium	4.94%
Hungary	6.67%
Malta	8.03%
Denmark	8.24%
Bulgaria	10.38%
France	10.46%
Albania	11.51%
Belarus	12.42%
Slovak Rep.	16.54%
Turkey	17.08%
Romania	21.55%
Bosnia & H.	32.31%

Belgium: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a countrys score on the Heritage Foundations freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

Greatly Improved
Improved
Nuetral
Worse
Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

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 Belgiumï¿½s Belgostat has rentals, under ï¿½consumer price indicesï¿½, as well as all the usual general economics statistics.