- ISO 3166
BE- Main language + region
nl-BE- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK · BeNeLux
Belgium
Belgium has 12M people, and 11.5M of them are online. English is the most widely spoken language at 59%, one of 6 languages CLDR lists here. Dutch, French, and German are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to nl-BE.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
11.5M
0%world median 81%100%
96% of 12M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$60,750
Higher than 90% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
98%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
6
English 59% · Dutch 55% · French 38%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 3 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
608
Very lowVery high
Very high proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
99%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR records English in 145 territories and 1.7B speakers in total; Belgium holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The English profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (nl-BE).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 april 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
€ 1.234,56
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro