Belgium - Deaths





Belgium: Deaths

Mnemonic DTH.IBEL
Unit #
Annual 3.64 %
Data 2022 116,380
2021 112,291

Series Information

Source Statistics Belgium
Release Components of Change
Frequency Annual
Start Date 12/31/1998
End Date 12/31/2022

Belgium: Demographics

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
Births 2022 113,593 117,914 # Annual
Deaths 2022 116,380 112,291 # Annual
Population 2022 11,698 11,584 Ths. # Annual
Net Migration 2017 240,000 # Annual
Birth Rate 2015 10.8 # per Ths. pop. Annual
Death Rate 2014 9.3 # per Ths. pop. Annual

Release Information

Statistics Belgium provides subnational components of change data annually.  Data is presented as a number. Data covers regions, provinces, and arrondissements.

Data on population change since 1988 is from the National Registry. It is centralized information primarily from municipal population registers. The historical data (before 1988) came for communal registers directly.

Active:

  • Measurement: Unitary count (#)
  • Adjustment: Not applicable
  • Measurement point: Start of period
  • Native frequency: Annual
  • Start date: As early as 1990
  • Geo coverage:
    • Country
    • 2019 delineations
    • NUTS 1 (3 IBEL_aaaa)
    • NUTS 2 (11 IBEL_aa)
    • Arrondissement/NUTS 3 (45 IBEL_aaa)

Predecessors:

  • 2018 geo delineations

These data refer to all persons who have experienced one of the following events in a given year:

  • Birth
  • Death
  • Change of residence in the country (internal migration)
  • Immigration from abroad (international migration)
  • Emigration to foreign destinations (international migration)
  • Change of nationality (or loss obtaining Belgian nationality)

Since 1996, asylum seekers waiting on the Register are excluded from the resident population and are mentioned in the movement of the population at the time of recognition of refugee status on their regularization.

Further reading

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