Belgium has a population of about 10,666,866 citizens as of January 2008.
Age structure
- 0-14 years: 16.7% (male 883,254/female 846,099)
- 15-64 years: 65.9% (male 3,450,879/female 3,389,565)
- 65 years and over: 17.4% (male 746,569/female 1,062,701) (2006 est.)
Median age
- Total: 80.0 years
- Male: 79.6 years
- Female: 82.1 years (2006 est.)
Population growth
The
population grew by 0.13% from 2005 to 2006. Belgium's birth rate is 10.38 births for every 1,000 citizens 10.27 deaths for every 1,000 population. Belgium's net migration rate is 1.22 migrant(s) for every 1,000 citizens as of 2006.
- At birth: 1.04 male(s)/female
- Under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
- 15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
- 65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female
- Total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
- Total: 4.62 deaths/1,000 live births
- Male: 5.2 deaths/1,000 live births
- Female: 4.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
- Total population: 78.77 years
- Male: 75.59 years
- Female: 82.09 years (2006 est.)
On average, Belgian females have 1.64 children as of 2006. Belgium's TFR, in 1994, equaled 1.50.
Ethnic groups
The country is ethnically split between its
Flemish majority of 5,500,000 people, its
Walloon minority of 4,500,000 people, and about 73,000
Germans.
The rest consists mostly of
Italians,
Dutch,
French,
Moroccans,
Algerians,
Turks,
Congolese,
Poles, and
Indians.
Religion
Most, 75% of Belgians, are nominally
Roman Catholic. Protestant, Muslim, agnostic, atheist and other minority religions comprise 25% of the population.
Languages
Belgium's three official languages are
Dutch, spoken by 60% of the population, French, spoken by 40%, and German, spoken by less than 1%. The vast majority of Belgium's population, 99%, is literate, defined by the Belgian government as capable of reading and writing in an official language once a citizen has reached the age of 15.
Literacy
Nationalitynoun: Belgian(s)
adjective:Belgian
References
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