Belgium
Belgium in numbers
38 measures of Belgium from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending2.01% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$13.6B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,237 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel24,000 people in 2020
- National power0.22% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.47% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports430 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports86 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Belgium with…
- Belgium vs India
- Belgium vs China
- Belgium vs United States
- Belgium vs Indonesia
- Belgium vs Pakistan
- Belgium vs Nigeria
- Belgium vs Brazil
- Belgium vs Bangladesh
- Belgium vs Russia
- Belgium vs Ethiopia
- Belgium vs Mexico
- Belgium vs Japan
- Belgium vs Egypt
- Belgium vs Philippines
- Belgium vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Belgium vs Vietnam
- Belgium vs Iran
- Belgium vs Türkiye
- Belgium vs Germany
- Belgium vs Thailand
- Belgium vs Tanzania
- Belgium vs United Kingdom
- Belgium vs France
- Belgium vs South Africa
- Belgium vs Italy
- Belgium vs Kenya
- Belgium vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Belgium vs Colombia
- Belgium vs South Korea
- Belgium vs Sudan
- Belgium vs Spain
- Belgium vs Argentina
- Belgium vs Canada
- Belgium vs Ukraine
- Belgium vs Uzbekistan
- Belgium vs Saudi Arabia
- Belgium vs Poland
- Belgium vs Australia
- Belgium vs Kazakhstan
- Belgium vs Romania
- Belgium vs Netherlands
- Belgium vs United Arab Emirates
- Belgium vs Czechia
- Belgium vs Portugal
- Belgium vs Tajikistan
- Belgium vs Sweden
- Belgium vs Greece
- Belgium vs Azerbaijan
- Belgium vs Israel
- Belgium vs Austria
- Belgium vs Switzerland
- Belgium vs Singapore
- Belgium vs Ireland
- Belgium vs Luxembourg
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
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