Country profile · BE

Belgium

44 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →

Population

11.9m

GDP

€620.1B

GDP per capita

€52,180

Population density

387 /km²

Unemployment

6.3%

pop-weighted

Employment

72.9%

pop-weighted

Area

30,674.9 km²

NUTS-3 regions

Country indicators · 68 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)

Economy

Gross value added, total (current prices)

€561.3B

country total

GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)

€4.9B

country total

GVA — industry (B–E)

€86.1B

country total

GVA — manufacturing (C)

€70.9B

country total

GVA — construction (F)

€30.1B

country total

GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)

€129.2B

country total

Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)

€28,490

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GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)

46,614 PPS

pop-weighted avg

GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)

€52,324

pop-weighted avg

Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)

€563.2B

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Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)

€81.6B

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Compensation of employees (total wage bill)

€1.15T

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GVA — real estate activities (L)

€56.3B

country total

GVA — information & communication (J)

€24.6B

country total

GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)

€175.8B

country total

GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)

€135.1B

country total

Labour market

Employment, total persons

5.1m

country total

Self-employed persons

894.8k

country total

Employment in manufacturing (C)

496.3k

country total

Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)

71.9%

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Youth unemployment rate (15–24)

18.3%

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Innovation & R&D

EPO patent applications

1.2k

country total

EPO patent applications per million inhabitants

127 /M

pop-weighted avg

R&D expenditure as % of GDP

3.0%

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Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)

5.9%

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Education

Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64

47.3%

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Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)

52.3%

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Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)

18.0%

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Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)

33.3%

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Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)

11.5%

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Digital

Households with internet access

94.7%

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Tourism

Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)

44.8m

country total

Mobility

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants

512 /1k

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Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.

62.7k

country total

Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).

527.3

pop-weighted avg

Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.

31.5

pop-weighted avg

Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.

151

country total

Demography

Population aged 15–64 (working age)

7.6m

country total

Population aged 65+

2.4m

country total

Population aged under 15

1.9m

country total

Median age of population

42.2 yrs

pop-weighted avg

Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)

32.0%

pop-weighted avg

Crude rate of total population change

5.6 /1k

pop-weighted avg

Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment

5.8 /1k

pop-weighted avg

Crude birth rate

9.2 /1k

pop-weighted avg

Crude death rate

9.5 /1k

pop-weighted avg

Live births

109.2k

country total

Deaths

112.1k

country total

Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)

57.2%

pop-weighted avg

Total fertility rate (births per woman)

1.46

pop-weighted avg

Population density (persons per km²)

1,485 /km²

pop-weighted avg

Social

At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)

16.5%

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Life expectancy at birth

82.4 yrs

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Health

Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants

538 /100k

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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)

921 /100k

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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)

216 /100k

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Safety & crime

Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants

1.4 /100k

pop-weighted avg

Robberies per 100k inhabitants

116 /100k

pop-weighted avg

Burglaries per 100k inhabitants

407 /100k

pop-weighted avg

Thefts per 100k inhabitants

1,659 /100k

pop-weighted avg

Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants

40 /M

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Climate

Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)

76 m

pop-weighted avg

Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)

6 days/yr

pop-weighted avg

Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)

35 days/yr

pop-weighted avg

Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)

2 days/yr

pop-weighted avg

environment

PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.

14.8

pop-weighted avg

NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.

14.1

pop-weighted avg

O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).

49.7

pop-weighted avg

Largest regions by GDP

BE100

Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad

pop 1.3m · gdp €108.2B

BE211

Arr. Antwerpen

pop 1.1m · gdp €67.6B

BE241

Arr. Halle-Vilvoorde

pop 674.8k · gdp €42.3B