neighboring Netherlands had around 442,500 SMEs in 2019.
Based on business figures from 2020, more than half of all small and medium enterprises in Belgium were located in the region of Flanders. When doing research for Belgium, most data will touch upon the three local regions and not the federal level. Belgium has four different governments, which all do things differently from one another: the federal level, Flanders, Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region (Brussels and its direct neighborhood). This also shows in language as the SME sector in Belgium is referred to as either KMO in Flemish Dutch (an abbreviation of kleine of middelgrote ondernemingen) or PME (French for Petites et Moyennes Entreprises. Overall, though, there were around 1.1 million SMEs in the country. In comparison, Total number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Flanders, Wallonia and the Brussels Capital Region (Belgium) from 2007 to 2020
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- Premium Statistic Number of SMEs in Belgium 2007-2020
- Premium Statistic Number of SMEs in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels (Belgium) 2007-2020
- Basic Statistic Number of SMEs in the Netherlands 2008-2023, by size
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Belgium
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- Premium Statistic Interest rate of business loans to SMEs in Belgium 2007-2018
- Premium Statistic Outstanding SME business loans in Belgium 2007-2018
- Basic Statistic Use of bank loans for SMEs in Belgium 2020
- Basic Statistic Value of the most recent bank loan of SMEs in Belgium 2020, by loan size
- Basic Statistic Use of credit line, bank overdraft or credit overdraft of SMEs in Belgium 2020
- Basic Statistic Use of leasing or hire-purchase for SMEs in Belgium 2020
- Basic Statistic Relevance of debt financing for SMEs in Belgium 2014-2020
- Premium Statistic Growth capital and venture capital value in Belgium 2007-2018
Netherlands
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- Premium Statistic Interest rate of business loans to SMEs in the Netherlands 2007-2020
- Premium Statistic Outstanding business loans from SMEs in the Netherlands 2013-2018
- Basic Statistic Use of bank loans for SMEs in the Netherlands 2020
- Basic Statistic Value of the most recent bank loan of SMEs in the Netherlands 2020, by loan size
- Basic Statistic Use of credit line, bank overdraft or credit overdraft of SMEs in Netherlands 2020
- Basic Statistic Use of leasing or hire-purchase for SMEs in the Netherlands 2020
- Basic Statistic Relevance of debt financing for SMEs in the Netherlands 2014-2020
- Premium Statistic Growth capital and venture capital value in the Netherlands 2007-2018
Luxembourg
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- Premium Statistic Interest rate of business loans to SMEs in Luxembourg 2007-2018
- Premium Statistic Outstanding business loans from SMEs in Luxembourg 2007-2020
- Premium Statistic Use of bank loans for SMEs in Luxembourg 2021
- Basic Statistic Use of credit line, bank overdraft or credit overdraft of SMEs in Luxembourg 2020
- Basic Statistic Use of leasing or hire-purchase for SMEs in Luxembourg 2020
- Basic Statistic Relevance of debt financing for SMEs in Luxembourg 2014-2020
- Premium Statistic Growth capital and venture capital value in Luxembourg 2007-2018
- Premium Statistic Growth capital and venture capital change in Luxembourg 2008-2018
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- Number of SMEs in the Brussels Capital Region (Belgium) 2020, by number of employees
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- ROA of small and medium enterprises in Italy 2015-2018
- Return on assets (ROA) in Italy 2015-2018, by company size
- YoY growth rate of labor costs in Italy 2015-2018, by size
- Italy: SMEs' investments as a percentage of tangible assets 2007-2017
- Italy: YoY percentage change in EBITDA of SMEs 2016-2017
- Share of companies in decline in Italy 2015-2020, by size
- ROE of small and medium enterprises in Italy 2016-2020
- Italy: CAGR of SMEs 2007-2015, by level of innovation investment
- Default risk of SMEs in Italy 2016-2020, by risk category
- Value of unpaid invoices among SMEs Q1 2012-Q2 2019
- Value of unpaid invoices among SMEs in Italy 2020, by company size
- SMEs interest rates in the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2018
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