Belgium World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Belgium	Rank
GDP	$542.8B	24
GDP growth, 1 year	1.4%	158
GDP growth, 5-years average	1.5%	146
Population	11.4M	79
GDP per capita	$48k	20
GDP per capita growth	1.04%	131
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	0.78	156
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.92	22
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$48k	26
GNI, Atlas method	$524.4B	24
GNI per capita	$46k	18
GNI, PPP adjusted	$591B	36
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$52k	18

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Belgium	Rank
Income Tax Rate	50%	173
Corporate Tax Rate	29%	116
Inflation, consumer prices	2.3%	90
Inflation, GDP deflator	1.5%	51
Unemployment	6.3%	111
Economic Freedom Index	68.9	52
Personal Freedom Index	9.06	16
Human Freedom Index	8.28	25
Property Rights Index	84.5	18
Judical Effectiveness Index	62.5	35
Business Freedom Index	75.2	42
Fiscal Health Index	77	96
Labor Freedom Index	61.1	79
Investment Freedom Index	85	9
Financial Freedom Index	70	19
Trade Freedom Index	86.4	17
Monetary Freedom Index	80.5	49
Government Spending Index	17.2	171
Tax Burden Index	46.7	172
Government Integrity Index	80.2	20
Corruption Perceptions Index	75	21
Life expectancy at birth, years	81.4	25
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	20.7	186
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	5.8	31
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	1.7	65
International tourism, number of arrivals	9.1M	42

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Belgium	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	101.4%	16
External debt stocks, % of GNI	N/A	-
External debt stocks	N/A	-
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	N/A	-
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	N/A	-
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	12%	58
Gross savings, % of GDP	24.5%	63
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	25.5%	64
Total reserves including gold	$26.9B	52
Foreign direct investment net inflows	-$62.8B	188

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Belgium	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	82.6%	14
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	82.7%	17
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$5.3B	160
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	38.4%	19
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	N/A	-
Personal remittances received	$12.3B	13
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	19.1%	140
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	0.5%	183
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$3.7B	21
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$4.4B	15
Expense, % of GDP	39.6%	14
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	52.5%	8