Population — national citizens

In 2003, Belgium's population increased by 0.5% compared to 2002, reaching 9,505,767.

Belgium ranks 9th out of 21 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.3% (from 9,289,144 in 1998).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.