Population — national citizens

In 2018, Belgium's population increased by 0.2% compared to 2017, reaching 10,022,157.

Belgium accounts for 2.4% of the EU-27 total of 411,593,089.

Belgium ranks 9th 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 9,906,682 in 2013).

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