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Human health activities

Current registrations 267division 86: 72,742
Starters, 12 months 8632.2 per 100 · Belgium 8.8
Median age 1.5 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
1
0.37% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
17-02-2023 Ilade, Andreea
BE 0599.892.639 · sole trader · Overijse

Every bankruptcy in division 86, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 60 of 267 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 44 · 73.3%
  • Wallonia 9 · 15.0%
  • Brussels 6 · 10.0%
  • Abroad 1 · 1.7%
fewer moremax 18

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 6 companies
  • 330 Health institutions and services 2
  • 330.04 Health institutions and services 2
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
  • 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 1

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

Division 86: Human health

Related activities

23 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Physiotherapy86951 12,614 739 4 369
Nutrition and dietetics services86995 10,169 203 10 10,077
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 -
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
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
Human health activities86996 419 97 0 33
Human health activities86997 313 188 0 -
Human health activities86920 255 13 4 1,214
Human health activities86959 114 8 0 686
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 activities86970 36 15 0 -
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 -

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 86 · financial year 2025 · 24,973 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
62.1%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€63,070
Belgium €16,539
Median equity
€144,856
Belgium €98,485
Loss-making
8.6%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
3.8%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
32.6%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.72
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
35.9%
financial year 2024 · Belgium 38.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
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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Bankruptcies per year in division 86

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies3738381381979984133133125134104
Jobs lost155112101224345124147251436214240196

2026 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 86

1,684 employers
Median
€58,900
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€45,000 to €75,500
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
61 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €52,000 €42,300 to €65,600 1,191
10 to 49 FTE €77,700 €61,500 to €88,100 344
50 to 249 FTE €81,300 €69,700 to €90,000 68
250 FTE or more €78,800 €72,300 to €83,100 81

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 86
Number
51
Half have run longer than
23 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
29%
Belgium: 31%

Measured 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.

Outcome by court and division

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 4,416 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Persoonsvolgend budget voor personen met een handicap (PVB)
  • Federal transfers 209.4m amount as published 108 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidie ziekenwagendiensten
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €219.1m paid 170 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €44.4m attributed share 34 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Digital Europe Programme
  • EU research €32.1m EU contribution 29 recipients · 2009 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Human health activities

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 32.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.8 in Belgium. No NACE division counts more. 77.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 1.5 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.

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 86932 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.

For NACE 86932, 25 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.