EU and other markets
Our focus is Belgium. Company data from the neighbouring countries – the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg and Germany – and from other EU countries we compile on request, with scope, data status and price in the quote.
33,046,830 businesses in the other 26 EU member states according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), reference year 2024 (data as of 30 September 2026). Not a figure from our dataset.
Neighbouring markets
Many sales territories do not stop at the language border or the national border. For these countries we check the public sources per request; we do not promise figures before we have counted.
Often requested together with Flanders, for example by suppliers who cover Dutch-speaking customers on both sides of the border.
A natural extension of a selection in Wallonia and Brussels; we state in advance which fields the sources in the target country provide.
Company data by industry and federal state, for CRM, postal mailings and market analysis; useful, for example, for the region around the German-speaking Community.
We check the country’s public registers and sources and tell you in advance what can be delivered.
Process
What can be delivered depends on the public sources and the law in the target country. That is why we clarify it before every quote.
Country, industry or activity (ideally as a NACE code), region and the fields every record should contain.
We check the country’s sources and state scope, columns, data status and price. All prices exclude VAT.
After your confirmation you receive the export as a UTF-8 CSV, or XLSX or JSON on request.
Eurostat counts a total of 33,978,235 businesses in industry, construction and market services in the EU-27 for 2024, of which 931,405 in Belgium. The table shows the other 26 member states. These are official statistics, not figures from our dataset; public administration, agriculture and membership organisations are not included. More detail per member state, including businesses per 1,000 inhabitants: businesses in the EU member states.
| Member state | Businesses | Member state | Businesses |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 5,445,577 | Austria | 628,058 |
| Italy | 4,652,416 | Finland | 478,708 |
| Spain | 3,516,793 | Bulgaria | 415,087 |
| Germany | 3,236,281 | Ireland | 410,205 |
| Poland | 2,821,170 | Denmark | 379,306 |
| Netherlands | 2,424,297 | Lithuania | 371,281 |
| Portugal | 1,470,937 | Croatia | 252,125 |
| Czechia | 1,366,927 | Slovenia | 208,078 |
| Romania | 1,030,603 | Estonia | 157,547 |
| Greece | 964,851 | Latvia | 152,706 |
| Hungary | 905,324 | Cyprus | 94,379 |
| Sweden | 873,878 | Malta | 59,496 |
| Slovakia | 682,029 | Luxembourg | 48,771 |
| 26 member states without Belgium | 33,046,830 | EU-27 including Belgium | 33,978,235 |
Name the country in your message. We usually reply within one working day with what can be delivered. Prefer email? info@basedecontacts.be.
FAQ
Not as an industry catalogue like the Belgian one on this website. For the neighbouring countries and other EU member states we check for each request which public sources exist and what we can deliver from them, and only then send a quote with scope, columns and price.
It counts businesses in industry, construction and market services (NACE sections B to S excluding public administration and membership organisations) in 2024: 33,978,235 in the EU-27, of which 931,405 in Belgium. The figure describes the market, not our dataset (Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), data as of 30 September 2026).
No. Each country decides whether and how businesses may be approached by email or phone. The GDPR applies directly throughout the EU; the rules for marketing by email and phone derive from the Directive 2002/58/EC on privacy and electronic communications (Art. 13), which each country has transposed differently. In Belgium, for example, marketing email without consent may only go to impersonal addresses of legal entities, with an offer intended for legal entities, and phone numbers must be screened against the Do Not Call Me list. When you request data for another country we tell you what we know about its rules, but we do not give legal advice. For Belgium: B2B email and the Royal Decree of 4 April 2003.
Ask us specifically, for example about Switzerland or the United Kingdom. Whether we can deliver depends on the country’s public sources; we check this for each request.
21 industries with the official number of businesses per industry.
