Population — national citizens

In 2016, Belgium's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2015, reaching 9,977,874.

Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 412,714,600.

Belgium ranks 10th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 1.5% (from 9,832,010 in 2011).

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