Belgien - Daten & Fakten

total: 30,528 sq km

land: 30,278 sq km

water: 250 sq km

agricultural land: 44.1% (2018 est.)

arable land: 27.2% (2018 est.)

permanent crops: 0.8% (2018 est.)

permanent pasture: 16.1% (2018 est.)

forest: 22.4% (2018 est.)

other: 33.5% (2018 est.)

Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between France and the Netherlands

0-14 years: 17.03% (male 1,038,921/female 990,288)

15-64 years: 63.06% (male 3,788,406/female 3,724,202)

65 years and over: 19.91% (2023 est.) (male 1,049,402/female 1,322,414)

10.86 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)

9.57 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)

Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%

major-language sample(s):
Het Wereld Feitenboek, een onmisbare bron van informatie. (Dutch)

The World Factbook, une source indispensable d'informations de base. (French)

The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information.

total population: 82.06 years

male: 79.47 years

female: 84.79 years (2023 est.)

2.122 million BRUSSELS (capital), 1.057 million Antwerp (2023)

total: 41.6 years

male: 40.4 years

female: 42.8 years (2020 est.)

29.2 years (2020 est.)

4.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2023 est.)

most of the population concentrated in the northern two-thirds of the country; the southeast is more thinly populated; considered to have one of the highest population densities in the world; approximately 97% live in urban areas

0.55% (2023 est.)

1.77 children born/woman (2023 est.)

urban population: 98.2% of total population (2023)

rate of urbanization: 0.38% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)

6.7% of GDP (2020 est.)

total: 19 years

male: 18 years

female: 20 years (2020)

-1% (of GDP) (2017 est.)

1.28% (2021 est.)

5.24 million (2021 est.)

14.8% (2018 est.)

6.42% (2021 est.)

5.55% (2020 est.)

5.36% (2019 est.)

119.43% of GDP (2020 est.)

103.38% of GDP (2019 est.)

101.39% of GDP (2018 est.)

note: data cover general government debt and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of treasury borrowings from surpluses in the social funds, such as for retirement, medical care, and unemployment; debt instruments for the social funds are not sold at public auctions; general government debt is defined by the Maastricht definition and calculated by the National Bank of Belgium as consolidated gross debt; the debt is defined in European Regulation EC479/2009 concerning the implementation of the protocol on the excessive deficit procedure annexed to the Treaty on European Union (Treaty of Maastricht) of 7 February 1992; the sub-sectors of consolidated gross debt are: federal government, communities and regions, local government, and social security funds

2.44% (2021 est.)

0.74% (2020 est.)

1.44% (2019 est.)

$515.625 billion (2021 est.)

$417.222 billion (2020 est.)

$441.566 billion (2019 est.)

note: Data are in current year dollars and do not include illicit exports or re-exports.

Germany 17%, France 14%, Netherlands 13%, United Kingdom 8%, United States 6%, Italy 5% (2019)

$509.018 billion (2021 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$408.343 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

$438.221 billion (2019 est.) note: data are in current year dollars

Netherlands 16%, Germany 13%, France 10%, United States 8%, Ireland 5%, China 5% (2019)

41 (2021)

total: 4,734,210 (2020 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 41 (2020 est.)

total: 10.92 million (2021 est.)

percent of population: 91% (2021 est.)

total: 3,602 km (2020) 3,160 km electrified

total: 118,414 km (2015)

paved: 118,414 km (2015) (includes 1,747 km of expressways)

total subscriptions: 3,293,420 (2021 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 28 (2021 est.)

total subscriptions: 11,740,118 (2021 est.)

subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 101 (2021 est.)

2,043 km (2012) (1,528 km in regular commercial use)