Europe & Central Asia · capital Brussels
Belgium
#81 by population · High income · ISO BEL
Population right now
11,945,064
7.7 net per day · 1 birth every 287.2 s
·anchor 11,941,781 on 1 Jul 2025
·0.144% of the world
👶 Births today
265
0% of the way to the next birth · 0 while you've been here
⚰️ Deaths today
274
0% of the way to the next death · 0 while you've been here
🧳 Net migration / yr
+6,398
5-yr avg from 2025
📈 Net growth / day
+7
0.02% per year, from births − deaths + migration
Profile
Birth rate
9.20 /1,000
2024
Death rate
9.50 /1,000
2024
Fertility
1.44 births/woman
Life expectancy
82.3 yrs
Aged 0–14
15.7%
Aged 65+
21.0%
Urban
87.7%
Land area
30,689 km²
Density
389.1 /km²
GDP / capita
$60,750
2025
Trend
Population 2015–2025
Same region
Largest neighbours
How these numbers are made. Nobody counts people in real time.
Each figure is recomputed every frame from a World Bank anchor and rate:
pop(now) = 11,941,781 + 0.0001/s × elapsed since 1 Jul 2025
births/day = 301 (crude birth rate 9.20/1,000, 2024)
deaths/day = 311 (crude death rate 9.50/1,000, 2024)
Births and deaths are estimates for a hypothetical average day; they do not reflect
seasonality, and the migration figure is a 5-year average. World Bank's separately
published growth rate is 0.70%/yr; the rate shown above is derived
from the components so it always agrees with the counter. Full method →