LA28 Olympics · resolves 30 Jul 2028
How many gold medals does Belgium win at LA28?
3 gold medals80% range 1 gold medals to 7 gold medals
Belgium
EuropeCapital city: BrusselsCapital metro: BrusselsMonarch: King PhilippePrime Minister: Bart De Wever
a monarch.
2026 population
11.9M
Rank #83 globally
Area
31k km² (12k sq mi)
Metros tracked
31
94% of population in metros
Composite score
114.5
Rank #22 globally
population: Official estimate (1 Apr 2026) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 31 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography31 metros
Belgium metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
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31 polygons
Select a metro for its rank and a link to its page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 31 tracked metros
31 metros
#39Brussels★ Capital▲ Largest
Brussels · Flemish Brabant · Walloon Brabant · 2.9M · Continental Metro
52.4
#154Antwerp
Antwerp · 1.6M · Regional Hub
19.4
#268Liege
Liège · 843K · Regional Hub
10.2
#330Gent
East Flanders · 576K · Established Metro
8.1
#492Bruges
West Flanders · 287K · Established Metro
5.0
#545Charleroi
Hainaut · 402K · Emerging Metro
4.5
#715Genk
Limburg · 443K · Emerging Metro
2.9
#821Kortrijk
West Flanders · 304K · Emerging Metro
2.4
#879Mechelen
Antwerp · 361K · Emerging Metro
2.1
#1136Sint-Niklaas
East Flanders · 293K · Emerging Metro
1.3
#1292Maaseik
Limburg · 260K · Emerging Metro
1.1
#1296La Louvière
Hainaut · 252K · Emerging Metro
1.1
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions
11 entries listed under Belgium across 2 types. Select any to see its metros and footprint.
11 total
Provinces (10)
Capital Regions (1)
📋 At a glance
- Official languages
- French, German, Dutch
- Currency
- Euro (€)
- Government
- Federation
- Legislature
- Belgian Federal Parliament
- Constitution
- 1831, 36 amendment events since
- Demonym
- Belgian
- Time zones
- UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +32
- Internet TLD
- .be
- ISO 3166
- BE
- Established
- 1830
- Highest point
- Signal de Botrange (694 m (2,277 ft))
- National anthem
- The Brabançonne
Facts via Wikidata.
🗣️ Languages of Belgium
English first; 5 languages share the country; 3 official.
| Language | Share | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 59% | None | CLDR, country |
| Dutch | 55% | Official | CLDR, country |
| French | 38% | Official | CLDR, country |
| German | 22% | Official | CLDR, country |
| Western Flemish | 10% | None | CLDR, country |
| Walloon | 5.8% | None | CLDR, country |
Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.
- English reach
- 59%
- Tier 3 country
- Effective languages
- 1.2
- Official-language gap
- 45%
- Dutch is spoken by 55%
💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Human Dev. Index
★ #9 / 1910.951
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#22 / 193$725.5B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#16 / 193$60.8k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#18 / 190$74.7k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#16 / 192$59.5k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#25 / 19482.3 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
41.4 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#27 / 19488%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
0.7%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#20 / 193386/km² (1,001/mi²)
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#27 / 19320.0%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#18 / 1750.96
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#12 / 16626.8
World Bank · 2023
Internet users
#20 / 19396%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#78 / 1852.5%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#165 / 1927.3 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#85 / 18639%
Ember · 2025
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
🔮 What happens next
Our forecasts, frozen before the result and scored after it.
LA28 Olympics · resolves 30 Jul 2028
How many medals in all does Belgium win at LA28?
9 medals80% range 4 medals to 18 medals
🏛️ Leadership History20 leaders · click to expand
is an editorial flag: associated with atrocities against civilians, systemic subversion of the constitutional order, or a criminal conviction (political persecutions and annulled convictions excluded). It is a curated list, not a measurement, so a name without one has not been cleared of anything. Hover a badge for the reason on file. marks a monarch.
Kingdom of Belgium
Bart De Wever✦ Current
Prime Minister · New Flemish Alliance
2025–Present
Alexander De Croo
Prime Minister · Liberal · 4 years
2020–2024
Sophie Wilmès
Prime Minister · Liberal · 1 year
2019–2020
Charles Michel
Prime Minister · Liberal · 5 years
2014–2019
Elio Di Rupo
Prime Minister · Socialist · 2 years
2011–2014
Yves Leterme
Prime Minister · Christian People's · 2 years
2009–2011
Herman Van Rompuy
Prime Minister · Christian People's · 1 year
2008–2009
Guy Verhofstadt
Prime Minister · Liberal · 8 years
1999–2008
Jean-Luc Dehaene
Prime Minister · Christian People's · 7 years
1992–1999
Wilfried Martens
Prime Minister · Christian People's · 13 years
1979–1992
Leo Tindemans
Prime Minister · Christian People's · 4 years
1974–1978
Gaston Eyskens
Prime Minister · Christian Social · 2 years
1958–1961
Elections
Every election since 1831 →
From the censitaire kingdom and plural voting to the linguistic fracture and the 541-day formation.
Constitution
Written 1831 →
36 amendment events since, the last in 2025. Compare it with every other country.
Spectrum →
Executive 7.5 (expert)
Legislature 5.2 mean, 2.5 spread
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Regional#21 · 0.9%
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
The power line is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Wars and conflicts5 interstate wars · click to expand
World War II●1939–1945
Combat deaths: 16,634,907+
French intervention in Mexico●1861–1867
Combat deaths: 20,000+
| Conflict | Years | Against | Combat deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korean War [ 9 ]● | 1950–1953 | North Korea,China,Soviet Union | 2,568,927–4,096,927 |
| World War II● | 1939–1945 | Germany,Japan,Italy,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Finland,Thailand,and others... | 16,634,907+ |
| World War I● | 1914–1918 | German Empire,Austria-Hungary,Ottoman Empire,Bulgaria | 8,578,031+ |
| Mahdist War● | 1881–1899 | Mahdist Sudan | 101,470+ |
| French intervention in Mexico● | 1861–1867 | Mexico United Mexican States,United States of America (entered in 1865) | 20,000+ |
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.” Figures marked “COW battle deaths” are Correlates of War battle-death counts, which run lower than total deaths.
👥 Population over time
Population 2023
11.7m
#81 in the world
Since 1800
3.60×
from 3.3m
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.14%
0.33% in 1800
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Belgium: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Peak on the median
2044
11.9m on the UN median
2050
11.9m
95% band 10.1m to 13.8m
2100
11.1m
95% band 6.4m to 17.7m
2100 against 2025
0.94×
median falling from 2045
Deaths outnumber births
since 2022
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
1950
144k born · 108k died · +5k net migration
TFR 2.35 · life expectancy 66.3 · median age 34.6
1960
154k born · 114k died · +10k net migration
TFR 2.53 · life expectancy 69.6 · median age 33.9
1970
142k born · 119k died · +19k net migration
TFR 2.25 · life expectancy 70.9 · median age 33.5
1980
123k born · 114k died · +11k net migration
TFR 1.69 · life expectancy 73.2 · median age 33.1
1990
124k born · 104k died · +8k net migration
TFR 1.63 · life expectancy 76.1 · median age 35.3
2000
116k born · 105k died · +14k net migration
TFR 1.66 · life expectancy 77.8 · median age 37.9
2010
129k born · 105k died · +105k net migration
TFR 1.85 · life expectancy 80.0 · median age 39.8
2020
116k born · 127k died · +44k net migration
TFR 1.57 · life expectancy 80.8 · median age 40.8
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
💰 Billionaires18 · $53.9B combined · click to expand
Finance & Investments · Investments
$9.0B
Automotive · Auto parts, distribution
$5.2B
#844Fernand Huts
Logistics · Logistics, transportation
$5.1B
#954Fabien Pinckaers
Technology · Software
$4.5B
Food & Beverage · ABInBev
$4.4B
Automotive · Auto parts, distribution
$3.5B
Manufacturing · Steel, Investments
$3.3B
Manufacturing · Plastic
$3.3B
Manufacturing · Steel, investments
$2.9B
Finance & Investments · Investing
$2.5B
Finance & Investments · Industrial and agricultural equipment parts
$1.7B
Technology · Semiconductors
$1.6B
Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.
🏆 National Teams
Belgium on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.
Olympics
Belgium
Games 36
Medals 192
All-time #28
Best #3
53 golds
Men's FootballUEFA
Belgium
FIFA #8
Elo #10
WC apps 15
No World Cups
Basketball
Belgium
Elo rank #48
Oly medals 0
WC apps 0
No Olympic golds
Elo-ranked; no Olympic or World Cup honours yet
Rugby Union
Belgium
Elo rank #24
No World Cups
Elo-ranked; no team page yet
CricketAssociate
Belgium
Matches 45