The inhabitants of Belgium quantities to 11,763,650 individuals (and it is solely rising due to immigration)

Inhabitants progress in 2023 is the results of a optimistic stability of worldwide migration (+66,349), the distinction between the variety of immigrants and emigration. The pure stability, the distinction between the variety of births and deaths, was adverse once more in 2023 (-1,057). Inhabitants progress in 2023 was barely increased than the typical of the final 10 years (+0.53 p.c).

“The struggle in Ukraine will nonetheless have a optimistic impact on the worldwide migration stability in 2023, though this will probably be way more pronounced than in 2022,” Statbel stated. downward pattern for a number of years, and because of this a adverse pure stability appears to be changing into the brand new regular,” he stated.

A adverse pure stability appeared once more for the primary time in nearly 80 years in 2020 (-13,111). “That 12 months was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly pushed the variety of deaths,” stated Statbel. After that, a adverse pure stability was seen once more in 2022 (- 2,787).

The downward pattern within the pure stability is especially defined by the downward pattern within the variety of births, but additionally by the growing pattern within the variety of deaths resulting from an ageing inhabitants. In 2023, 110,198 births and 111,255 deaths have been recorded.