Population — national citizens

In 2023, Belgium's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2022, reaching 10,127,198.

Belgium accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 10,022,157 in 2018).

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