The Belgian economic miracle (French: Le miracle belge, Dutch: Het belgische wonder, literally "The Belgian Miracle") was a period of rapid economic growth in Belgium after World War II, principally between 1945 and 1948. It was characterised by parallel trends of rising employment and real wages and low inflation, leading to improvements in living standards.[1] It was roughly contemporary with the Wirtschaftswunder in West Germany and part of the period of worldwide postwar economic expansion in the late 1940s and 1950s.