Population of Belgium 1992-2023, by region

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.

至2023年，比利时的人口约为1170万。其中，大部分居民居住在荷兰语区的弗拉芒地区，该地区居住着比利时近一半的人口。瓦隆地区，大体上与比利时法语区相一致，约有368万居民，另有124万居住在布鲁塞尔及其周边地区（这些地区为双语）。就区域人口密度而言，尽管布鲁塞尔首都大区的人口数量最少，但其人口密度却最高，2017年时每平方公里人口接近7400人。相比之下，弗拉芒地区的人口密度仅为500人左右，而瓦隆地区则仅有214人。在区域国内生产总值（GDP）方面，瓦隆地区不仅是每平方公里人口数量最少的地区，其人均GDP也是最低的。在2019年，最新的可用数据中，该地区的人均GDP达到了30,236欧元。相较之下，布鲁塞尔的人均GDP则高达71,412欧元，几乎是瓦隆地区的2.5倍。