- ISO 3166
BE- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
11.5M
0%world median 81%100%
96% of 12M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
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, so treat it as colour for a discussion. 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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Belgium
share of 12M people
- English59%7.1M
- Dutchofficial55%6.6M
- Frenchofficial38%4.6M
- Germanofficial22%2.6M
- West Flemish10%1.2M
- Walloon6%694.7K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against nl-BE, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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