Human health activities
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts
NACE 86959 · financial year 2025 · 73 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 63.7% | 62.3% | 59.5% | 62.5% | 66.4% | 64.2% |
| Median net result | €25,576 | €37,509 | €26,627 | €36,924 | €51,033 | €32,655 |
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Spread across the country
by region and province · 95 of 114 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
The balance sheets of division 86 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 86959 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 CAR HOUTLAND - WESTKUSTZedelgem 63.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 CENTRUM VAN DE OOSTKUSTKnokke-Heist 54.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Centrum voor Ambulante Revalidatie 't Vlot vzwGhent 37.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 HorizonGeraardsbergen 35.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Revalidatiecentrum Buggenhout vzwGhent 34.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 37 companies- 330 Health institutions and services 25
- 330.01 Health institutions and services 6
- 330.04 Health institutions and services 4
- 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 1
- 340 Orthopaedic technologies 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 | 12,624 | 751 | 4 | 369 |
| Nutrition and dietetics services86995 | 10,168 | 206 | 10 | 10,077 |
| Nursing and midwifery86940 | 5,954 | 540 | 8 | 4,628 |
| Psychology services86931 | 5,501 | 371 | 1 | 2,137 |
| Other human health activities86999 | 1,084 | 516 | 0 | 740 |
| Non-conventional therapeutic services86961 | 981 | 525 | 0 | - |
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| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podiatry and foot care86994 | 970 | 384 | 1 | 4 |
| Medical imaging and medical laboratories86910 | 695 | 24 | 2 | 5,589 |
| Human health activities86939 | 671 | 376 | 0 | 26 |
| Human health activities86996 | 421 | 99 | 0 | 33 |
| Human health activities86997 | 318 | 192 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86932 | 268 | 87 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86920 | 255 | 13 | 4 | 1,214 |
| Human health activities86991 | 89 | 52 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86952 | 80 | 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 | - |
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.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 86
1,680 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €52,000 | €42,300 to €65,700 | 1,189 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €77,700 | €61,400 to €87,900 | 342 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €81,300 | €69,700 to €90,000 | 68 |
| 250 FTE or more | €78,800 | €72,300 to €83,100 | 81 |
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Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 86Measured nationally: Of 108,642 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% 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 7 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.
20 of the 34,038 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 138,609 FTE: 1.3%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €3.07bn awarded
- Federal transfers 160.2m 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 activities
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €32,655 is above Belgium's €16,516. 4.1% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Liquidity of 2.76 is above Belgium's 1.66.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 13.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 16.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 7.0 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 54% of the 87 NACE divisions.
Staff and filing. 16.4% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 224 of the 686 FTE: 32.6%.
Direction. The median net result rose from €25,576 in financial year 2020 to €32,655 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 86959 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 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.