Population — national citizens

In 2004, Belgium's population increased by 0.3% compared to 2003, reaching 9,536,134.

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 9,321,772 in 1999).

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