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IndicatorBELBelgiumEurope & Central Asia
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.96rank #5
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile77.6rank #23
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.78rank #11
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.82rank #3
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.97rank #3
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile74.6rank #29
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.96rank #5
Military spending% GDP1.3%rank #93
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.63rank #8
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile68rank #97
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile74.5rank #25
Rule of Law0-100 percentile79rank #23
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.96rank #15
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.89rank #3
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.79rank #10
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile83.1rank #13
Women in parliament% seats41.3%rank #23
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #2
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment0.98%rank #173
Agriculture value added% GDP0.73%rank #148
Annual working hours per workerhours1,593.3rank #110
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker625,526.3rank #6
Current account balance% GDP-1.9%rank #54
Employment-to-population ratio%50.6%rank #134
FDI net inflows% GDP-4%rank #95
GDPcurrent US$725.47Brank #22
GDP growth%0.98%rank #161
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$60,750.3rank #15
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $63,488.4rank #18
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $63,582.5rank #19
Government expenditure% GDP39.7%rank #17
Gross capital formation% GDP25.7%rank #44
Gross savings% GDP23.7%rank #34
High-technology exports% manuf. exports20.4%rank #27
Human capital indexindex3.1rank #44
Industry value added% GDP18.6%rank #120
Inflation%2.5%rank #75
Labour force participation rate%53.7%rank #142
Personal remittances received% GDP2.3%rank #47
R&D expenditure% GDP3.3%rank #7
Researchers in R&Dper million5,990.1rank #10
Tax revenue% GDP23%rank #22
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.86rank #19
Trade openness% GDP152.9%rank #14
Unemployment% labor force5.9%rank #106
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%5.7%rank #105
Vulnerable employment% employment11%rank #44
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2417.8%rank #122
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2417.1%rank #121
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #1
Basic sanitation access% pop99.5%rank #22
Child mortalityper 1000.37rank #14
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,921.3rank #2
DTP3 immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Health spending% GDP10.8%rank #19
Infant mortalityper 1k births3.1rank #15
Life expectancyyears82.3rank #31
Maternal mortalityper 100k4rank #4
Measles immunization% children96%rank #4
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%96%rank #4
Physiciansper 1k3.6rank #34
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m38.4rank #35
Road traffic deathsper 100k5.8rank #21
Smoking prevalence% adults23.5%rank #85
Suicide mortality rateper 100k18.4rank #164
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k2.7rank #14
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births3.7rank #28
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Education spending% GDP6.3%rank #18
Expected years of schoolingyears19rank #8
Mean years of schoolingyears12.7rank #27
Primary enrollment% gross102.1%rank #61
Secondary enrollment% gross143%rank #1
Tertiary enrollment% gross82.1%rank #19
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0009.2rank #162
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.4rank #161
Median age of populationyears41.4rank #36
Net migration rateper 1,0003.6rank #48
Populationpeople11.94Mrank #81
Population growth%0.7%rank #121
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years85.9rank #28
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands11,870.9rank #92
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age57.3rank #89
Urban population%87.7%rank #31
Climate
CO₂ emissionst85.46Mrank #43
CO₂ per capitat7.3rank #36
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation0.73%rank #75
Electricity from solar% generation15.6%rank #20
Electricity from wind% generation20%rank #15
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita7,098.8rank #15
Forest area% land22.6%rank #125
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita8.1rank #141
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh109.3rank #15
Renewable electricity%38.9%rank #45
Renewable energy share%11.7%rank #124
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e95.1rank #131
Society
Asylum seekerspeople69rank #22
Extreme poverty% pop0.1%rank #2
Female labor participation%49.8%rank #119
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10044.2rank #14
Gender Development Indexratio0.98rank #44
Gender Inequality Index0-10.03rank #8
Gini indexindex26.8rank #5
Homicide rateper 100k1.1rank #36
Human Development Index0-10.95rank #7
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.89rank #5
Internet users% pop95.8%rank #18
Life satisfaction0-106.9rank #14
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.67rank #68
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #31
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #10
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #12
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #13
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people186,393rank #36
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people113rank #30
Youth NEET rate%7.5%rank #18
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year3rank #3
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-102rank #15
Human hazard & exposure0-100.2rank #3
INFORM risk score0-102.6rank #15
Lack of coping capacity0-103.3rank #25
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.8rank #5
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-105.2rank #31
Natural hazard & exposure0-103.5rank #22
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year2rank #3
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.2rank #3
Vulnerability0-102.7rank #16
Vulnerable groups0-104.7rank #42
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