Population — national citizens

In 2024, Belgium's population increased by 0.3% compared to 2023, reaching 10,159,203.

Belgium accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

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 1.2% (from 10,041,769 in 2019).

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