Population — national citizens

In 2025, Belgium's population increased by 0.3% compared to 2024, reaching 10,193,392.

Belgium accounts for 2.5% of the EU-27 total of 405,729,577.

Belgium ranks 8th out of 26 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 10,069,121 in 2020).

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