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Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Current registrations 103division 84: 2,285
Employment (FTE) 84627 employers · latest accounts
Median age 35.4 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 79.6%82 of 103 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

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

6 companies file their annual accounts outside the standard format, for example in a sector format. Their figures and staff are missing from the employment, the medians and the largest employers.

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Filed accounts

NACE 84309 · financial year 2025 · 39 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
47.4%
division 53.7% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€51,301
division €34,507 · Belgium €16,490
Median equity
€3.0m
division €1.1m · Belgium €98,313
Loss-making
30.8%
division 26.2% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
0.0%
division 3.5% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
1.6%
division 3.5% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.09
division 2.63 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
10.0%
financial year 2024, 50 filings · division 19.8% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
2.3%
of 44 companies with annual accounts · division 1.6% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 26.8%29.4%29.0%36.0%42.1%47.4%
Median net result €20,890€101,377€46,888€39,990€124,100€51,301

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Spread across the country

by region and province · 102 of 103 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Brussels 60 · 58.8%
  • Flanders 29 · 28.4%
  • Wallonia 13 · 12.7%
fewer moremax 60

Largest employers

NACE 84309 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Parentia VlaanderenBrussels 147 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 My FamilyAntwerp 112 FTEfinancial year 2024
  3. 3 Parentia WallonieNamur 91.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Caisse Wallonne d'Allocations Familliales CamilleNamur 90.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 Caisse wallonne d'assurances sociales UCMNamur 79.2 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 31 companies
  • 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 19
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 4
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 3
  • 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 2
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 330 Health institutions and services 1
  • 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 84: Public administration and defence

Related activities

2 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84302 83 0 0 321
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84301 27 0 0 646

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 2,032 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
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.99bn paid 420 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires dans le fondamental
  • Federal transfers 115.82bn amount as published 1,138 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Pensioenen overheidssector
  • 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

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €51,301 is above Belgium's €16,490. 0.0% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 1.6% is below Belgium's 15.9%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 58.8% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 35.4 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 1.0% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 10.0% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 520 of the 846 FTE: 61.5%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 26.8% in financial year 2020 to 47.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €20,890 in financial year 2020 to €51,301 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 11-11-2026 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 84309 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 1,276,472 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,781 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the 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. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.