Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Belgium instead of Netherlands, you would:
Economy
be 15.2% less likely to live below the poverty line
In Netherlands, 14.5% live below the poverty line as of 2021. In Belgium, however, that number is 12.3% as of 2022.
be 54.8% more likely to be unemployed
In Netherlands, 3.6% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Belgium, that number is 5.5% as of 2023.
Life
be 25.0% more likely to die during childbirth
In Netherlands, approximately 4.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Belgium, 5.0 women do as of 2020.
Expenditures
spend 26.4% more on education
Netherlands spends 5.3% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Belgium spends 6.7% of total GDP on education as of 2020.
Geography
see 85.3% less coastline
Netherlands has a total of 451 km of coastline. In Belgium, that number is 66 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Belgium: At a glance
How big is Belgium compared to Netherlands? See an in-depth size comparison.