Belgium

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
11,498,519 1
Urban
98.00% 1
Rural
2.00% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
12.3% 2
Homicides
1.95 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
15 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
24 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.82 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
0.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
81 years 6
Internet Users
85% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$47,260 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
8,286,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
71.97
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
32,059
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1,866
First Communions per Year
36,853
Confirmations per Year
35,433
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
508,540
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
560,993
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
179,865
Church Marriages per Year
10,732
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
10,552
Priests
4,122
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
5,758
Catholics per Priest
2,010
Parishes
3,705
Catholic Hospitals
86
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
435