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Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

NACE 84119 · division 84 Public administration and defence
Current registrations 41division 84: 2,284
Starters, 12 months 9division 84 · 0.4 per 100 · Belgium 7.5
Employment (FTE) 10,806division 84 · financial year 2025
Median age 50.3 yearsdivision 84 · Belgium 10.7 years

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 84 · financial year 2025 · 235 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
53.7%
Belgium 46.2%
Median net result
€34,507
Belgium €16,569
Median equity
€1.1m
Belgium €98,595
Loss-making
26.2%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
3.5%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
3.5%
Belgium 16.0%
Median liquidity
2.63
Belgium 1.66

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 84

89 employers
Median
€80,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€66,300 to €101,600
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
11 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €77,500 €59,000 to €102,100 36
10 to 49 FTE €85,300 €70,400 to €107,300 27
50 to 249 FTE €83,200 €75,800 to €94,700 20

Spread across the country

by region and province · 39 of 41 enterprises with a registered office on file
  • Flanders 14 · 35.9%
  • Brussels 12 · 30.8%
  • Wallonia 12 · 30.8%
  • Unknown 1 · 2.6%
fewer moremax 12

Largest employers

NACE division 84 · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 GasthuisZusters AntwerpenAntwerp 1,281 FTEfinancial year 2024
  2. 2 Oeuvres des Frères de la CharitéNamur 1,267 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 Agentschap Integratie en InburgeringBrussels 728 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Enabel, Belgisch OntwikkelingsagentschapBrussels 579 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 PARKEERAGENTSCHAP VAN HET BRUSSELS HOOFDSTEDELIJK GEWESTBrussels 370 FTEfinancial year 2025

None of the 1,687 companies in NACE division 84 has a parent company abroad.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €16.85bn awarded 676 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Erkenning en financiering/subsidiëring van woonzorgcentra
  • Federal transfers 67.23bn amount as published 952 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Evenwichtsdotatie - sociale zekerheid voor werknemers
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.24bn paid 327 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires dans le fondamental
  • EU budget €70.9m attributed share 36 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Connecting Europe Facility, Transport
  • EU research €52.7m eu contribution 36 recipients · 2007 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 84 is lower than that of 94% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 84 is 0.0%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 246 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 84119 exists.

The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.

The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 84, not only NACE 84119. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait.