Skills Development Needs in Belgian Enterprises by Economic Sector

Key Insights:

• Specialist skills remain the most consistently needed, maintaining the highest demand levels (70.0% → 60.7% → 52.5%).
• Customer handling shows significant variation, dropping from 60.8% in 2010 to 45.4% in 2015, then slightly recovering to 46.1% in 2020.
• Team skills mirror customer handling patterns, declining from 59.1% to 38.7% in 2015, then recovering to 42.5% by 2020.
• Problem solving shows a notable decline from 2010 to 2015 (54.1% → 29.1%), then recovers to 32.7% in 2020.
• IT General skills show resilience, declining less dramatically than other skills and recovering to 32.5% by 2020.
• Numeracy and literacy shows the most dramatic decline of all skills, from 11.7% in 2010 to just 1.2% in 2020.
• Foreign language skills experience a steep decline from 29.6% in 2010 to 8.1% in 2020.

Chart Description:

Chart Type: Multi-line chart showing trends over time

Main Color: #18baa8 (primary), with complementary colors for different skill categories

Years Displayed: 2010, 2015, 2020

Data Source: This chart displays the percentage of enterprises across all economic sectors (TOTAL) in Belgium that reported needing specific skills for development. Each line represents a different skill category, showing how demand has changed over the decade.