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Belgium

Belgium is an EU member state with a population of 11.9M, a GDP of €642B (2025) and a per-capita output of €53.9k, a median age of 42.1 years. Member of the European Union since 1958.

405 Eurostat indicators across 15 topics, with full year-by-year history.

Population

11.9M

2025 · rank 8/27

GDP (current prices)

€642B

2025 · rank 7/27

GDP per capita

€53.9k

2025 · rank 7/27

Median age

42.1yrs

2025 · rank 22/27

Country at a glance

Belgium is a western europe member of the European Union, with its capital in Brussels. The country joined the European Communities in 1958 as one of the six founding member states. Economically, Belgium is an open trading economy hosting the EU institutions in Brussels, with manufacturing, chemicals and logistics anchored in Antwerp and the Walloon industrial belt. The country has used the euro since 1999, and it is part of the Schengen area for cross-border movement. The official languages are Dutch, French, German and the country is divided into 3 NUTS-1 statistical regions for the purposes of Eurostat reporting. On Eurostat's headline indicators, Belgium is currently 8th-most populous of the 27 member states with data on record; 7th by GDP at current prices.

Key insights

How Belgium stands out across the EU-27 on flagship indicators — auto-generated from the latest Eurostat snapshot.

  • 14.3% of energy from renewables — bottom 1 in EU
  • At-risk-of-poverty 10.9% — 2nd lowest in EU
  • R&D expenditure 3.4% of GDP — above the EU 3% target (EU avg 2.2%)

Belgium vs EU-27

Flagship indicators alongside the EU-27 average and Belgium's rank across covered member states.

IndicatorBEEU-27 avgΔRankYear
Gross domestic product (GDP) and main components per capita - annual data€53,930€41,620+30%7/272025
Gross domestic product (GDP) and main components (output, expenditure and income) - annual data€642,015M€18,810,682M-97%7/272025
Unemployment by sex and age - annual data6.2%6.0%+3%11/272025
Employment rates by citizenship64.2%66.6%-4%23/272025
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex10.9%16.3%-33%26/272025
Life expectancy by age and sex82.481.5+1%10/272024
Population structure indicators at national level42.144.9-6%22/272025
Fertility indicators1.441.34+7%8/272024
Government deficit/surplus, debt and associated data107.9%81.7%+32%4/272025
Share of energy from renewable sources14.3%25.2%-43%27/272024
Population in private households by educational attainment level47.5%36.9%+29%6/272025
GERD by sector of performance3.4%2.2%+50%2/272024

Indicators by topic

Every Eurostat indicator we hold for Belgium, grouped by theme. Click through to the indicator profile for the cross-country timeline.

Economy & national accounts

35 indicators

Public finance & taxation

13 indicators

Labour & employment

44 indicators

Demography & population

48 indicators

Income, poverty & living conditions

124 indicators

Migration & asylum

25 indicators

Education

3 indicators

Health

25 indicators

Justice & crime

7 indicators

Environment & climate

15 indicators

Energy

11 indicators

Digital society & ICT

26 indicators

Science, R&D, patents

7 indicators

Transport

3 indicators

Tourism

19 indicators

More data on Belgium

This profile covers Eurostat statistical indicators. The pages below extend the picture into other strands of EU public data — parliamentary representation, public procurement, EU-funded research, cohesion-fund spending, regional statistics.

Sources & methodology

Data on this page comes from Eurostat (405 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Each indicator card links to the cross-country profile with the full year-by-year timeline. See methodology for caveats, revision policy and ranking definitions, or sources for the complete dataset list.

Last refreshed: 2026-05-18 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API