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🇧🇪 Belgium
Kingdom of Belgium
BEL BE € Euro (EUR)
Every statistic we track for Belgium — 127 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$78,607
80.2 yrs
6.93
0.79
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.4 | #166/217 | 2024 |
| Median Age | 42.1 | #45/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 10.8 | #78/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 11.9 | #80/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 388.9 | #36/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 113 | #150/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 87.6% | #40/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #15/214 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 95.8% | #20/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 101.7 | #132/209 | 2022 |
| Weekly Internet Use | 94.2% | #8/34 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 20.2% | #118/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 9.5 | #47/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 0.4 | #166/199 | 2024 |
| Daily Cigarette Smokers | 14.6% | #22/31 | 2019 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 10.8% | #19/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 30% | #165/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 3 | #165/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 80.2 | #27/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 80.2 | #30/186 | 2020 |
| Obesity (BMI ≥ 30) | 15.9% | #20/30 | 2019 |
| Suicide Rate | 14.3 | #30/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 24% | #60/167 | 2022 |
| Undernourishment | 2.5% | #111/166 | 2023 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 86 | #12/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 11.6 | #35/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 489 | #12/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 479 | #23/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 491 | #24/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 7.3 | #31/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 4,051 | #21/149 | 2023 |
| Renewable Electricity | 35.2% | #86/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 40% | #29/48 | 2026 |
| Paying for Online News (Digital News Report) | 14% | #21/42 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 81.2 | #16/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 41% | #42/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 39% | #20/48 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Homicide Rate | 0.9 | #167/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 4.6 | #170/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 87.1% | #64/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 33.6% | #102/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.8 | #76/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 22.1% | #89/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 11.5% | #34/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 2.6 | #138/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 60.1 | #35/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 5.8 | #81/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 59.2% | #104/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.9 | #14/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #44/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 2 | #14/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #72/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 1 | #10/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.3 | #16/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.5 | #31/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 1 | #10/193 | 2023 |
| Life Satisfaction (Eurobarometer) | 87.1% | #12/34 | 2024 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 12.4% | #65/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 82.6% | #75/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 62.7% | #120/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 75 | #9/65 | 2010 |
| Masculinity | 54 | #29/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 65 | #27/65 | 2010 |
| Signed a Petition | 33.3% | #20/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 26.2% | #10/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4.5 | #71/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.7 | #71/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in People (ESS) | 5 | #14/38 | 2023 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.9 | #46/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 94.8% | #7/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 91.6% | #6/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.8 | #90/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 94 | #7/65 | 2010 |
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