Human health activities
Activities
NACE division 86 · 32 activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specialist medical practice86220 | 16,578 | 352 | 3 | 7,959 |
| Physiotherapy86951 | 12,614 | 739 | 4 | 369 |
| Nutrition and dietetics services86995 | 10,169 | 203 | 10 | 10,077 |
| General medical practice86210 | 9,147 | 377 | 1 | 3,519 |
| Dental practice86230 | 6,948 | 265 | 1 | 3,068 |
| Nursing and midwifery86940 | 5,947 | 535 | 8 | 4,628 |
| Psychology services86931 | 5,502 | 372 | 1 | 2,137 |
| Other human health activities86999 | 1,082 | 514 | 0 | 740 |
| Non-conventional therapeutic services86961 | 977 | 522 | 0 | - |
| Podiatry and foot care86994 | 963 | 381 | 1 | 4 |
| Medical imaging and medical laboratories86910 | 695 | 24 | 2 | 5,611 |
| Human health activities86939 | 666 | 372 | 0 | 26 |
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| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human health activities86996 | 419 | 97 | 0 | 33 |
| Human health activities86997 | 313 | 188 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86932 | 267 | 86 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86920 | 255 | 13 | 4 | 1,214 |
| Human health activities86101 | 154 | 0 | 0 | 79,188 |
| Human health activities86959 | 114 | 8 | 0 | 686 |
| Human health activities86109 | 104 | 3 | 0 | 3,455 |
| Human health activities86991 | 89 | 52 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86952 | 79 | 33 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86933 | 74 | 4 | 0 | 1,352 |
| Human health activities86963 | 74 | 16 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86104 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 13,220 |
| Human health activities86970 | 36 | 15 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86103 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1,279 |
| Human health activities86965 | 29 | 8 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86962 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Human health activities86992 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 84 |
| Human health activities86993 | 13 | 7 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86964 | 5 | 4 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86102 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - |
Filed accounts
NACE division 86 · financial year 2025 · 24,973 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 61.4% | 63.6% | 64.4% | 65.0% | 66.5% | 62.4% |
| Median net result | - | - | €45,165 | €59,285 | €57,302 | €56,554 | €63,182 | €63,546 |
| Filed late | 44.3% | 49.0% | 45.1% | 43.6% | 41.3% | 38.7% | 35.9% | - |
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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 86
1,683 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €52,000 | €42,300 to €65,700 | 1,191 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €77,700 | €61,500 to €87,700 | 343 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €81,300 | €69,700 to €90,000 | 68 |
| 250 FTE or more | €78,800 | €72,300 to €83,100 | 81 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Bankruptcies
Bankruptcies per year in division 86
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 37 | 38 | 38 | 138 | 197 | 99 | 84 | 133 | 133 | 125 | 134 | 104 |
| Jobs lost | 155 | 112 | 101 | 224 | 345 | 124 | 147 | 251 | 436 | 214 | 240 | 196 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 30-10-2026 | FEMINATAL
BE 0776.628.520 |
| 30-10-2026 | Brian, Danièle
BE 0813.766.751 · sole trader |
| 27-10-2026 | Smile in Dental
BE 0745.471.427 |
| 21-10-2026 | Altro Projects
BE 0500.801.201 |
| 21-10-2026 | Dr. Jose Manuel Archuleta Arteaga
BE 0786.953.872 |
| 12-10-2026 | KS MEDICAL CENTER
BE 0776.701.071 |
| 09-10-2026 | Samen Aan Zet
BE 0671.837.638 |
| 07-10-2026 | ANGELI
BE 0794.179.679 |
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 86Measured nationally: Of 108,606 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 5 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 34,526 of 72,742 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 86 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 EvaraGhent 7,601 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 ZIEKENHUIS AAN DE STROOMAntwerp 6,712 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 EmmaüsMechelen 6,327 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 HUmaniCharleroi 5,560 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Cliniques universitaires Saint-LucWoluwe-Saint-Lambert 4,932 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 4,072 companies- 330 Health institutions and services 2,447
- 330.04 Health institutions and services 1,238
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 280
- 330.01 Health institutions and services 56
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 55
- 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 26
- 331 Flemish welfare and health sector 25
- 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 23
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- 336 Liberal professions 21
- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 20
- 201 Independent retail 13
- 302 Hotels and catering 13
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 13
- 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 10
- 116 Chemical industry 6
- 202 White-collar workers in food retail 5
- 319.01 Educational and residential institutions 5
- 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 5
- 340 Orthopaedic technologies 5
- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 4
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
20 of the 34,009 companies in NACE division 86 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (8), Luxembourg (3) and United States (3). Together they employ 1,838 of the division's 138,652 FTE: 1.3%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €3.13bn awarded
- Federal transfers 209.4m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €219.1m paid
- EU budget €44.4m attributed share
- EU research €32.1m EU contribution
Insights on Human health
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €63,070 is above Belgium's €16,539. Return on equity of 32.6% is above Belgium's 15.9%. 3.8% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 0.5 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 85% of the 87 other NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 0.0% at under 10 FTE, 0.0% at 10 to 49 FTE, 0.0% at 50 to 249 FTE and 0.0% at 250 FTE or more.
Inflow and structure. 52.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 7.1 of 100 companies started, against 8.8 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 52% of the 86 other NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 31,131 of the 138,652 FTE: 22.5%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 61.4% in financial year 2020 to 62.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €45,165 in financial year 2020 to €63,546 in financial year 2025. In 2025, Statbel counted 134 bankruptcies and 240 jobs lost, against 99 bankruptcies in 2020.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 05-11-2026 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 86 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 1,275,887 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,448 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.