Belgium's Population Ages as One in Five Citizens Turns Sixty-Five

Belgium's population is aging rapidly, with one in five citizens over sixty-five. Birth rates have dropped steadily since their peak in twenty-ten across Belgium.

Life expectancy keeps rising, so people now live considerably longer lives today.

Adults over eighty now form six percent of the nation's total population. Thirty years ago, that same share stood at just four percent nationally.

Today roughly thirty-six older residents exist for every hundred working-age Belgian adults. This shift reignites debate over pension funding and Belgium's social security future.