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Belgium

11,941,781

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+83.17K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+16.5%from 10.25M
Life expectancy82.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.44births per woman · 2024
Urban population87.7%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Belgium is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1415.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6463.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+21.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate9.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-0.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+31.99Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Belgium look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 11.87M in 2050—1.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202411.74M
  2. 205011.87M
  3. 210011.06M
Median age in 205045.2years
Births in 2050104.21Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050141.18Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19609.15M
  2. 19709.66M
  3. 19809.86M
  4. 19909.97M
  5. 200010.25M
  6. 201010.9M
  7. 202011.54M
  8. 202511.94M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 11/8/2026

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