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Belgium: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Belgium Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Belgium

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

10.90 Percent of people

European ranking

29 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

-4.4 puntos

Belgium is 4.4 points below the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 1.30 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 10.90 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

    +113.80

    23.30

  2. 2

    Prov. Liège

    +33.90

    14.60

  3. 3

    Prov. Hainaut

    +33.00

    14.50

  4. 4

    Prov. Luxembourg (BE)

    +9.20

    11.90

  5. 5

    Prov. Namur

    +5.50

    11.50

  6. 6

    Prov. Antwerpen

    -5.50

    10.30

  7. 7

    Prov. Brabant Wallon

    -9.20

    9.90

  8. 8

    Prov. Limburg (BE)

    -38.50

    6.70

  9. 9

    Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen

    -44.00

    6.10

  10. 10

    Prov. Vlaams-Brabant

    -46.80

    5.80

  11. 11

    Prov. West-Vlaanderen

    -48.60

    5.60

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Belgium

In Belgium, Poverty risk stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 10.9% versus 16.2% in 2025, a large gap of 5.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Belgium, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 14.10% in 2020 to 10.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 11.40% in 2024 to 10.90% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Belgium

In Belgium, regional differences in Poverty risk are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest records the highest value (23.3%) and Prov. West-Vlaanderen the lowest (5.6%), a gap of 17.7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Belgium, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.