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Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Current registrations 6division 84: 2,285
Largest region Brussels 67%

No starter in the past twelve months. No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 3 of 6 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Brussels 2 · 66.7%
  • Flanders 1 · 33.3%
fewer moremax 2

Companies

6 with this main activity

Division 84: Public administration and defence

Related activities

8 other activities

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 84 · financial year 2025 · 235 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
53.7%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€34,507
Belgium €16,520
Median equity
€1.1m
Belgium €98,421
Loss-making
26.2%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
3.5%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
3.5%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.63
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
19.8%
financial year 2024, 243 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
1.6%
of 252 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --54.2%57.6%52.0%51.7%52.0%52.7%
Median net result --€25,847€43,290€23,531€24,398€20,751€29,313
Filed late 21.6%33.0%21.7%23.7%23.6%23.4%19.8%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 84

Per year201520202024
Bankruptcies112
Jobs lost1303

2024 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 84

112 employers
Median
€82,100
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€67,700 to €102,300
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
10 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €77,500 €59,200 to €95,700 42
10 to 49 FTE €85,300 €72,100 to €106,000 35
50 to 249 FTE €85,000 €76,000 to €101,600 29

None of the 2,031 companies in NACE division 84 has a parent company abroad.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €30.65bn awarded 899 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
  • Federal transfers 115.82bn amount as published 1,138 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Pensioenen overheidssector
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.99bn paid 420 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires dans le fondamental
  • EU budget €90.0m attributed share 55 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €72.8m EU contribution 55 recipients · 2007 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Inflow and structure. This activity holds 0.3% of the registrations of Public administration and defence.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 06-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 84231 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

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 "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,581 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 698,987 registrations publish no activity.