Human health activities
No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.
Filed accounts
NACE 86996 · financial year 2025 · 54 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 54.8% | 57.5% | 51.0% |
| Median net result | €9,928 | €15,912 | €13,311 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 27-12-2024 | Akarkach, Souhaila
BE 0725.692.434 · sole trader · Antwerp |
| 07-04-2022 | Zorn, Nathalie
BE 0885.083.329 · sole trader · Vaux-sur-Sûre |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 177 of 419 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 86996 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Centre médical de Rééducation logopédiqueMons 21.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 CENTRUM VOOR SPRAAK - EN TAALPATHOLOGIEAs 9.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Multidisciplinair centrum Sabine SlockGhent 1.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 5 companies- 330 Health institutions and services 5
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 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 activities86997 | 313 | 188 | 0 | - |
| Human health activities86932 | 267 | 86 | 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 | - |
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
1,683 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 |
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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.
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 €3.07bn 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. Return on equity of 54.9% is above Belgium's 15.9%. 3.7% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. 11.1% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.2% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 23.2 of 100 companies started, against 8.8 in Belgium. That is more than in 98% of the 87 NACE divisions. Half of the companies are younger than 2.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 57.8% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The 3 largest employers hold 33 of the 33 FTE: 100.0%.
Direction. Median solvency fell from 54.8% in financial year 2023 to 51.0% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €9,928 in financial year 2023 to €13,311 in financial year 2025.
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 86996 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. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today.