Belgium

Economic Freedom Rating - Belgium Compared to Continent

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Albania	63.33
Austria	69.98
Belarus	44.66
Belgium	71.48
Bosnia & H.	53.72
Bulgaria	62.92
Croatia	54.58
Cyprus	71.31
Czech Rep.	68.52
Denmark	79.23
Estonia	77.78
Finland	74.79
France	65.35
Germany	71.16
Greece	60.07
Hungary	67.25
Iceland	76.51
Ireland	82.35
Italy	62.46
Latvia	68.33
Lithuania	70.80
Luxembourg	75.20
Macedonia	61.13
Malta	66.03
Moldova	58.38
Netherlands	76.82
Norway	68.99
Poland	59.49
Portugal	64.30
Romania	61.53
Russia	49.93
Slovak Rep.	68.74
Slovenia	60.58
Spain	69.71
Sweden	70.42
Switzerland	79.72
Turkey	60.76
UK	79.55
Ukraine	51.07

 

 

Belgium: Economic freedom rating

Scores are from 0 to 100, higher scores are more desirable i.e. more conducive to economic growth. The lower the score, the greater the level of government interference in the economy and the less economic freedom a country enjoys.

• Free 80 - 100;
• Mostly Free 70 - 79.9;
• Moderately Free 60 - 69.9;
• Mostly Unfree 50 to 59.9; and
• Repressed 0 - 49.9.

Source: 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 Belgium’s Belgostat has rentals, under “consumer price indices”, as well as all the usual general economics statistics.