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Belgium: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Belgium Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Belgium

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

16.50 Percent of people

European ranking

25 / 30

Compared with Europe

-3.5 puntos

Belgium is 3.5 points below the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 1.96 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

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Latest: 16.50 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

    +103.60

    33.60

  2. 2

    Prov. Hainaut

    +50.30

    24.80

  3. 3

    Prov. Liège

    +18.80

    19.60

  4. 4

    Prov. Namur

    -4.80

    15.70

  5. 5

    Prov. Luxembourg (BE)

    -6.70

    15.40

  6. 6

    Prov. Antwerpen

    -13.90

    14.20

  7. 7

    Prov. Brabant Wallon

    -15.80

    13.90

  8. 8

    Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen

    -26.70

    12.10

  9. 9

    Prov. Limburg (BE)

    -38.20

    10.20

  10. 10

    Prov. West-Vlaanderen

    -40.60

    9.80

  11. 11

    Prov. Vlaams-Brabant

    -46.70

    8.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a moderate 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 or exclusion is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 16.5% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 3.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Belgium, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 20.30% in 2020 to 16.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 18.30% in 2024 to 16.50% 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 or exclusion are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest records the highest value (33.6%) and Prov. Vlaams-Brabant the lowest (8.8%), a gap of 24.8 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.