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Belgium: Population
All residents regardless of legal status or citizenship, mid-year estimate.
Data status: CurrentThe latest figures we have collected are for 2025. 2026 is not overdue until March 27, 2028, a generous allowance for a annual series until we have timed this source’s releases.
Official statisticSource figures as of October 8, 2026Sources & methods
- Sources
- World Bank
- Period covered
- 1960 – 2025
- Source figures as of
- October 8, 2026
- Geography
- Belgium
- Sector
- Whole economy (not a single sector)
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable
- Transformations
- Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
- Revisions
- Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
- Data status
- Current
Key figures
CK estimatePeople · calculated by CK Economics from World Bank data
- Latest · 2025
- 11,941,781
- +0.7% vs a year earlier1
- 5-year change
- +3.5%
- since 2020, +0.7% a year2
- 10-year change
- +5.9%
- since 2015, +0.6% a year2
- Record high
- 11,941,781
- 20253
- Record low
- 9,153,489
- 19603
- Where the latest ranks
- 100th pct.
- Higher than 100% of the other 65 observations since 19604
- 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
- 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier; the yearly rate is the compound annual growth rate over the span.
- 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
- 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.
Methodology
All residents regardless of legal status or citizenship, mid-year estimate. Compiled by the World Bank from national statistical offices and international agencies; some series (labour force participation) are ILO modelled estimates. Source series SP.POP.TOTL. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (WDI 2026-10-08). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=BEL
All data
| Period | Value | Change y/y |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,941,781 | +0.7% |
| 2024 | 11,858,610 | +0.7% |
| 2023 | 11,779,946 | +0.9% |
| 2022 | 11,680,210 | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 11,586,195 | +0.4% |
| 2020 | 11,538,604 | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 11,488,980 | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 11,427,054 | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 11,375,158 | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 11,331,422 | +0.5% |
| 2015 | 11,274,196 | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 11,209,057 | +0.4% |
| 2013 | 11,159,407 | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 11,106,932 | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 11,038,264 | +1.3% |
| 2010 | 10,895,586 | +0.9% |
| 2009 | 10,796,493 | +0.8% |
| 2008 | 10,709,973 | +0.8% |
| 2007 | 10,625,700 | +0.7% |
| 2006 | 10,547,958 | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 10,478,617 | +0.6% |
| 2004 | 10,421,137 | +0.4% |
| 2003 | 10,376,133 | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 10,332,785 | +0.4% |