Population — national citizens

In 2021, Belgium's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2020, reaching 10,075,908.

Belgium accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

Belgium ranks 8th 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 1.0% (from 9,977,874 in 2016).

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