Population (total, 1 January)

In 2024, Belgium's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.6% compared to 2023, reaching 11,817,096.

Belgium accounts for 2.6% of the EU-27 total of 449,306,184.

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 3.2% (from 11,455,519 in 2019).

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