| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tracked flow records | 909 | Raw count of trade-flow records in the database naming Belgium as an origin or destination — a record count, never a summed dollar total. |
| Port coverage | 4of 474 | Ports catalogued for Belgium with verified cargo statistics tracked on PortIndex. |
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How concentrated Belgium's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — Belgium's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.
+ 231 more tracked partners not shown above.
Every row currently involving Belgium, in either direction — nothing picked or hidden. The full trade history for Belgium lives in the 1,821,338-record database and isn't fully browsable here yet.
| Direction | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands → Belgium | $88.7B | 2025 | UN Comtrade (BE) |
| Belgium → Germany | $63.8B | 2025 | UN Comtrade (BE) |
Every one of Belgium's 223 real trading partners reported for 2025 under UN Comtrade (BE) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.
| Partner | Reported value |
|---|---|
| Germany (DE) | $63.8B |
| France (FR) | $48.3B |
| Netherlands (NL) | $47.9B |
| United States (US) | $29.5B |
| United Kingdom (GB) | $22.2B |
| Italy (IT) | $18.7B |
| Spain (ES) | $12.6B |
| Poland (PL) | $11.7B |
| Luxembourg (LU) | $7.2B |
| China (CN) | $7.0B |
| Sweden (SE) | $6.8B |
| Switzerland (CH) | $6.2B |
| Türkiye (TR) | $5.6B |
| Czechia (CZ) | $4.0B |
| India (IN) | $4.0B |
| Ireland (IE) | $3.6B |
| Austria (AT) | $3.4B |
| Japan (JP) | $3.4B |
| United Arab Emirates (AE) | $3.2B |
| Denmark (DK) | $3.2B |
| Romania (RO) | $2.8B |
| Canada (CA) | $2.7B |
| Portugal (PT) | $2.7B |
| Hungary (HU) | $2.5B |
| Brazil (BR) | $2.4B |
| Russian Federation (RU) | $2.3B |
| Saudi Arabia (SA) | $2.3B |
| Norway (NO) | $2.2B |
| Israel (IL) | $2.0B |
| Greece (GR) | $1.9B |
| Korea, Republic of (KR) | $1.9B |
| Mexico (MX) | $1.9B |
| Finland (FI) | $1.8B |
| Australia (AU) | $1.8B |
| Singapore (SG) | $1.7B |
| Morocco (MA) | $1.7B |
| Hong Kong (HK) | $1.5B |
| Egypt (EG) | $1.3B |
| Nigeria (NG) | $1.3B |
| Slovakia (SK) | $1.3B |
| South Africa (ZA) | $1.2B |
| Lithuania (LT) | $1.1B |
| Bulgaria (BG) | $1.0B |
| Slovenia (SI) | $824.3M |
| Thailand (TH) | $813.3M |
| Viet Nam (VN) | $782.2M |
| Ghana (GH) | $774.8M |
| Algeria (DZ) | $736.1M |
| Togo (TG) | $699.4M |
| Ukraine (UA) | $689.5M |
Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for Belgium's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare Belgium against all 68 covered countries.
| Metric | Latest value | Year | Trend (1997–2013) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of exporting firms | 20,091 | 2013 | |
| Incumbent exporting firms | 15,030 | 2013 | |
| New entrant exporting firms | 5,061 | 2013 | |
| Exiting exporting firms | 4,791 | 2012 | |
| Firm entry rate | 25.2% | 2013 | |
| Firm exit rate | 24.8% | 2012 | |
| Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale) | 0.007 | 2013 | |
| Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes) | 1,134 | 2013 | |
| Avg. export value per exporting firm | $17.7M | 2013 | |
| Median export value per exporting firm | $99.0K | 2013 | |
| Avg. destination countries per exporting firm | 7.8 | 2014 | |
| Median destination countries per exporting firm | 2.0 | 2014 |
The 2013 mean is 179x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.
Top product categories among Belgium's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2013 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.
| Product category (HS2) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84 | 6,427 |
| Vehicles other than railway HS 87 | 4,080 |
| Plastics and articles thereof HS 39 | 3,690 |
| Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85 | 3,412 |
| Articles of iron or steel HS 73 | 2,944 |
| Inorganic chemicals HS 28 | 2,708 |
| Optical, medical, precision instruments HS 90 | 2,699 |
| Paper and paperboard HS 48 | 2,353 |