Population — national citizens

In 2005, Belgium's population increased by 0.4% compared to 2004, reaching 9,574,990.

Belgium ranks 8th out of 20 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.5% (from 9,341,975 in 2000).

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