World population/Belgium
Europe
Population of Belgium
11,774,647
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#83
world rank
0.14%
of world population
+0.12%
yearly change
+13,996
people this year
100,860
births a year
115,903
deaths a year
How the figure for Belgium is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Belgium at 11,774,647 on 1 July 2026, and projects 11,788,643 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Belgium at number 83 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.14 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 100,860 births and 115,903 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
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