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Demographics of Belgium |
| Demographics of the Kingdom of Belgium | |
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1961-2005 |
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| Size: | 10,666,866 (2008 est.) |
| Growth: | 0.13% (2006 est.) |
| Birth: | 10.38 births/1,000 population (2006 est.) |
| Death: | 10.27 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.) |
| Life expectancy: | 78.77 years (2006 est.) |
| Life expectancy(m): | 75.59 years |
| Life expectancy(f): | 82.09 years |
| Fertility: | 1.64 children born/woman (2006 est.) |
| Age Structure: | |
| 0-14 years: | 16.7% (male 883,254/female 846,099) |
| Sex Ratio: | |
| At birth: | 1.04 male(s)/female (2006 est.) |
| Under 15 years: | 1.04 male(s)/female |
| 15-64 years: | 1.02 male(s)/female |
| Nationality: | |
| nationality: | noun: Belgian(s) adjective: Belgian |
| Language: | |
| Spoken: | Dutch, French, German |
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Belgium, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populous, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
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The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook.
Belgium has a population of about 10,666,866 citizens as of January 2008.
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.
On average, Belgian females have 1.64 children as of 2006. Belgium's TFR, in 1994, equaled 1.50.[1]
The country is populated by a Flemish majority of 6,000,000 people speaking Flemish, a Walloon minority of 3,400,000 people speaking French, and about 73,000 German speaking people in Wallonia, near the German border. The rest consists mostly of French-speaking people from Brussels, Italians, Dutch, French, Moroccans, Algerians, Turks, Congolese, Poles, and Indians.
The exact number of French-speakers in Brussels is hard to be determined, but it is estimated that 77% of the people livings in Brussels use French and 16% Dutch in their households, as sole language or next to another language. See the Brussels article for more details.
Most, 75% of Belgians, are nominally Roman Catholic. Protestant, Muslim, agnostic, atheist and other minority religions comprise 25% of the population.
Belgium's three official languages are Dutch, spoken by 58% of the population, French, spoken by 42%, 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.
noun: Belgian(s)
adjective:Belgian
This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook (2006 edition) which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.
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