In the last decade, Belgium’s GDP per capita increased by approximately ***** euros, and in 2019, GDP per capita amounted to roughly ****** euros. GDP per capita was highest in the Brussels-Capital Region, at ****** euros. By comparison, in the Walloon Region this was only ****** euros.

 GDP per capita expected to increase in the nearby future  

According to a recent forecast, in the next few years Belgium’s GDP per capita is expected to increase even further. For 2021, a growth of *** percent is foreseen. In the years afterwards, GDP per capita growth is expected to somewhat slow down, reaching its lowest growth rate in 2025, at *** percent.

Comparison to the Netherlands and Luxembourg  

 Of the three Benelux countries, Belgium had also the lowest GDP growth rate in 2019. Whereas the Netherlands and Luxembourg showed growth rates of *** percent and *** percent respectively, Belgium’s GDP only increased by *** percent in 2019.

Belgium GDP: Brussels Region data was reported at 103,284.900 EUR mn in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 96,512.700 EUR mn for 2022. Belgium GDP: Brussels Region data is updated yearly, averaging 73,996.600 EUR mn from Dec 2003 (Median) to 2023, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 103,284.900 EUR mn in 2023 and a record low of 53,859.300 EUR mn in 2003. Belgium GDP: Brussels Region data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Bank of Belgium. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Belgium – Table BE.A024: ESA 2010: GDP by Region and per Capita.

Belgium GDP per Capita: Brussels Region data was reported at 82,052.000 EUR in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 78,344.000 EUR for 2022. Belgium GDP per Capita: Brussels Region data is updated yearly, averaging 63,842.000 EUR from Dec 2003 (Median) to 2023, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 82,052.000 EUR in 2023 and a record low of 54,903.000 EUR in 2003. Belgium GDP per Capita: Brussels Region data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Bank of Belgium. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Belgium – Table BE.A024: ESA 2010: GDP by Region and per Capita.

This statistic shows the percentage change on the previous year of GDP in the Brussels Capital Region (Belgium) in 2020 and 2021, with a forecast for 2022 to 2027. Between 2020 and 2021, GDP in the Brussels Capital Region increased by 3.9 percent. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, however, the GDP of Brussels decreased by 5.5 percent in 2020. Nonetheless, an increase of 2.1 percent was forecast for 2022.

In 2023, the population of Belgium numbered around 11.7 million. Most of these inhabitants lived in the Dutch-speaking Flemish Region, which was home to nearly half of Belgium’s population. The Walloon Region, broadly in line with the French-speaking part of Belgium, numbered roughly 3.68 million inhabitants, and another 1.24 million lived in Brussels and the surrounding areas (which are bilingual).  

 Population density by region 

Despite having the lowest number of inhabitants, the Brussels-Capital Region had the highest population density, at nearly 7,400 inhabitants per square kilometer in 2017. By comparison, this was less than 500 inhabitants in Flanders and just 214 in Wallonia.  

GDP per region  

Wallonia was not just the region with the lowest number of inhabitants per square kilometer, it also had the lowest GDP per capita. In 2019, the most recent available year, GDP per capita reached 30,236 euros in this region. In contrast, GDP per capita was nearly 2.5 times as high in Brussels, at 71,412 euros per capita.

Ordered Probit Estimation. Data refer to waves 1994–99, 1999–04, 2005–08. Dummy of the last quantile (the 5) is omitted. Reg.GDP is the per capita regional GDP in PPP, in 10K, 2005 USD. Standard errors are clustered at quantile level (in brackets); ***, ** , * .

This statistic shows the unemployment rate in the Brussels Capital Region (Belgium) from 2020 to 2021, with a forecast for 2022 to 2027. In 2021, the unemployment rate in the Brussels Capital Region was 15.6 percent. In 2022, it was forecast that unemployment would reach 15.3 percent.

This statistic shows the total number of unemployed people in the Brussels Capital Region (Belgium) from 2020 to 2021, with a forecast for 2022 to 2027 (in 1,000s). In 2021, the number of unemployed people in the Brussels Capital Region was roughly 88.9 thousand. In 2022, this region of Belgium was expected to have 87.3 thousand unemployed people.

国内生产总值：布鲁塞尔地区在12-01-2023达103,284.900百万欧元，相较于12-01-2022的96,512.700百万欧元有所增长。国内生产总值：布鲁塞尔地区数据按年更新，12-01-2003至12-01-2023期间平均值为73,996.600百万欧元，共21份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于12-01-2023，达103,284.900百万欧元，而历史最低值则出现于12-01-2003，为53,859.300百万欧元。CEIC提供的国内生产总值：布鲁塞尔地区数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于Banque Nationale de Belgique，数据归类于全球数据库的比利时 – Table BE.A024: ESA 2010: GDP by Region and per Capita。

Due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the number of tourist arrivals in Belgium decreased sharply in 2020 over the previous year. In 2019, domestic tourists made up most tourist arrivals in Belgium, with approximately 8.7 million arrivals. In 2020, the number of domestic arrivals dropped to about 4.8 million. Meanwhile, the number of arrivals by Dutch tourists in Belgium went down from approximately two million in 2019 to roughly 742 thousand in 2020.

The tourism sector in Belgium

The total contribution of travel and tourism to GDP in Belgium was 17 billion euros in 2020. There was a marked decrease when compared to the previous years, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Foreign and domestic tourists

Domestic and international tourism in Belgium had very different responses to the events that affected the industry in 2019 and 2020. The spending of international tourists in Belgian territory amounted to roughly 10 billion in 2019, and saw a strong drop in 2020. Meanwhile, the spending of domestic tourists went down from over 18 billion euros in 2019 to less than 10 billion in 2020.

Data published by Our World in Data based on EM-DAT, CRED / UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium – www.emdat.be (D. Guha-Sapir)

Variable time span 1900 – 2010

This dataset has been calculated and compiled by Our World in Data based on raw disaster data published by EM-DAT, CRED / UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium – www.emdat.be (D. Guha-Sapir). EM-DAT publishes comprehensive, global data on each individual disaster event – estimating the number of deaths; people affected; and economic damages, from UN reports; government records; expert opinion; and additional sources. Our World in Data has calculated annual aggregates, and decadal averages, for each country based on this raw event-by-event dataset. Decadal figures are measured as the annual average over the subsequent ten-year period. This means figures for ‘1900’ represent the average from 1900 to 1909; ‘1910’ is the average from 1910 to 1919 etc. We have calculated per capita rates using population figures from Gapminder (gapminder.org) and the UN World Population Prospects (https://population.un.org/wpp/). Economic damages data is provided by EM-DAT in concurrent US$. We have calculated this as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) using the World Bank’s GDP figures (also in current US$) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator). Definitions of specific metrics are as follows: – ‘All disasters’ includes all geophysical, meteorological, and climate events including earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, drought, wildfires, storms, and flooding. – People affected are those requiring immediate assistance during an emergency situation. – The total number of people affected is the sum of injured, affected, and homeless.Link www.emdat.be